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undersized carrots at the county 10-Jan-2011 At 6:54:13 PM brendan

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i agree about the wiregate quickdraw thing, I only really climb trad or alpine these days so 99% of my rack is wire gates to save weight and stop gates freezing up. I am always scrounging for solid gates when i head to the bluies or buffalo

On 10/01/2011 gfdonc wrote:
>>Helicopter rescue after nasty ground fall at The Tower in the Grampians
>>about five years ago. Guy used wiregates on carrot, fell off and bolt
>unclipped.
>>You could argue that he shouldn'thave used wiregates but these days it
>>seems many people have wire-gate only racks and are ignorant of the dangers.
>
>Hear hear. I educated one climber about this issue at Buffalo last month.
> He'd been climbing for several years (and is on the forum). He was quite
>pleased about his shiny new collection of wiregates and started using them
>with hangers until I picked him up about it. We had to pilfer solid gates
>from my rack, and even so didn't have any spares.
>