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Aid Climbing Help 9-Oct-2007 At 7:41:35 AM rhinckle

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i've yet to do an aid climb, but i'm sussing the techniques by 'boulderaiding'.

get out and see whats possible in places where you're not going to die if you fall.
at least you will get familiar with equipment and techniques (without having to include rope management as well).
just make sure that yr in a lonely place, you'll feel like a dick if there's anyone around. (Well i do.)

i am curently playing with
couple of bird beaks, couple of cam hooks, skyhook, talon.
either some slings (or if feeling flush, etriers) and a daisy chain (tubular tape with alpine butterfly loops works for me. essential if its overhanging) then...
you find what else you need with practice.

(btw, i find hanging on hooks scarier than leading, not the soft option that i had imagined)
you can't feel the rock.
bit of practice to begin to establish what will pop and what will not.