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Injury at Spurt Wall 30-Apr-2015 At 2:23:55 PM BBSR

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On 30/04/2015 kieranl wrote:
>On short sport routes consider using double-rope technique. If you've got
>60 or 70 metres of skinny sport rope there's a lot of spare rope available
>on a 12 or 15m route to let you treat each end of the rope as a separate
>rope. This can pretty much eliminate the groundfall risk while clipping.
>Of course your belayer won't be able to use their grigri (for fun you could
>use 2 belayers with a grigri each). There are even sport routes where this
>is recommended (Living with a hernia)

Only thing to be wary of when using single ropes in this way is that if you clip them both through one biner, and they have the same length out, they will pull tight at the same time in a fall, and give a harder catch (and more force on the gear) than one single strand of the single rope by itself. Lots of things you can do to manage this issue (stretchy ropes, care at high fall factor points, alternating clips etc).