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Stop saying 14-Jan-2015 At 7:35:55 PM gfdonc

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On 13/01/2015 martym wrote:
>I think the real question is - why are you taking someone off belay if
>you're about to lower them again?

Yep, +1 for all marty's comments. I do use the call "in hard" but only so the belayer knows what's happening, it isn't a call to take anyone off belay.

Simey wrote:
I reckon communicating with tugs on the rope never works. [snip]
>> Disagree on the first point but somewhat agree with your later points. If you're familiar with your climbing partner you can anticipate based on rope movements what is happening BUT it's not 100% reliable.
I advocate: 2 tugs for safe, 3 tugs for on belay. These are repeated twice with a pause in between.
I've also been a big advocate of walkie-talkies but somehow don't seem to carry them so much these days (my climbing partners don't usually see their value; I need to take them multipitching on a windy day sometime to refresh their memory).