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Yulludunida (Kaputar NP) 15-Dec-2022 At 7:52:48 AM BA

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On 15-Dec-2022 One Day Hero wrote:

>In some ways I really wish I'd been around for the era of fabricating
>your own gear. Seems like it would have been properly adventurous.

On the other hand, consider the fact that I had five slings. One for each belay, which means that there were three left for protecting the pitch!

I also made my own bolt brackets in the above mentioned workshop.

If you have been following the John Middendorf articles (Mechanical Advantage) he mentions Sporthaus Schuster in Germany, that is where we did get our first Kernmantel ropes and our first EB climbing boots were ordered from Aux Vieu Campeur (or something) in Paris. The above were shipped out by sea and took 2-3 months to arrive.