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Accident at climbing gym 19th May 21-Jan-2006 At 10:40:03 PM Rock Weasel

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Training for leading? Lead climbing indoors (and 'sport' routes) are glorified top-roping anyway. However, it can be disconcerting to lead in some gyms because whilst there are plenty of draws, they are sometimes embedded in no more than 20mm plywood, which is rated for who knows how may kilo-newtons. I guess that's why they don't let you skip any draws.
As for having to re-clip draws on the way down, St Leonards gym in NSW has a good system of metal 'pig-tails'. If you can't get the rope back in on lowering you can just flick it back in from the ground, and it is a significantly easier to remove on ascent (compared with unclipping a draw). It works well on shorter walls, but I think that the AME at Cliffhanger is always going to be a pain in the arse.