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General Climbing Discussion

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Onsight FA of 34 / 8c+ / 5.14c 2-Jan-2008 At 4:05:29 PM Ronny
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On 31/12/2007 Macciza wrote:
>Plugnrun - maybe you should change it to 'clipnslip' instead . . .
>Carrots are an artificial version of a placement - you still need to do
>something , like slotting a wire, in
>order to make it useable unlike 'fixed pro' that lets you clip and go
>like ringbolts, fixed hangers or fixed
>pitons, wires whatever.
>It seems a bit ridiculous to assume that simply clipping a pre-existing
>ring is at all the same as having to
>set up the protection yourself - even if it is just putting on a plate.

You can't be serious? That is just complete nonsense.

Whatever the virtues of carrots over rings/brackets may be, being akin to natural pro is not one of them. By the same reasoning its even more like pro if you place each biner and the sling in between one at a time because you get a bit more pumped doing it.

Carrots have their place, as do rings, but each of them differs from natural pro in that they are an artificial point of protection that does not utilise natural features. The important (and defining) characteristic of natural pro isn't the difficulty or otherwise of placing it, but the fact that it relies on the natural features of the rock.

J

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