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Ozymandias and water 24-Jan-2014 At 2:51:45 PM brendan

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On 24/01/2014 dave h. wrote:
>I second the importance of hauling systems.
>
>If I ever do Ozy again, I think I'd use a far-end hauling system. (Rope
>is tied in to the anchor, you put the pulley w/ progress capture on the
>haulbag itself, and jumar up the haul line with the bag). I found hauling
>over Big Grassy's edge massively inefficient... I will admit that I've
>only used the far-end hauling technique with a relatively light bag. Obviously
>yours will be pretty heavy. So it may not work very well at all. Just something
>you may want to consider.

you don't need or want to far end haul while you have a partner. Far end hauling is for when your soloing and your bag gets stuck, you then rap back down and release it, far end haul it up a few metres over whatever its catching on, then either jug back up and haul it or continue to haul it for the rest of the pitch. The last two times I hauled from BG I set the anchor then rapped down and hauled from the little ledge below. When i got the bags to that ledge I far-end hauled them upto BG, friction wasn't an issue if you haul from down there.