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Top Stupid Mistakes to Avoid 20-Aug-2003 At 12:32:20 PM V
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On 19/08/2003 onsight wrote:
>it’s so easy to confuse “take” with “safe”

Reminds me of a situation that came up recently where I was belaying from the top using a double rope setup and I kept hearing my second call out "take in slack!". I would yank in the ropes, only to find they were tight already, then the second repeated the call, again and again... I remember thinking "this is weird, I'm sure I expicitly said not to use the word slack when you want me to take in".

Finally it clicked -- one of the ropes is black and they were calling "take in black!". Duh.
I've decided that the rope is to be called "blue" from now on.

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