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First Rope Advice 6-Jan-2011 At 11:55:02 AM ..::- Chris -::..

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Around 8m of Cord here.... and I rarely find myself with spare....

but I am a strict 3 point belay person where as I know others are happy with 2 as long as they are good. I was trained to use 3 points always, I've never had a single point fail in 15 years of climbing but I still like the fact there are backups and in general the force I’m exerting each piece of my gear is reduced etc

For me 8m works because I can fold the cord into 4 and full arms (wingspan) stretch then double that over and tie knot and it's not too bulky to carry....

There are still occasions when I use the rope to setup or a combo of both but I find 9 times out of 10 an 8 meter does me well.

I guess the way equalize my belay means that assuming all pieces are the same distance from the belay point I will have 6 lines (2 to each piece of gear)

10 Meter Cord
3 Piece (~1.6m from each piece)
2 Piece (~2.5m from each piece)

8 Meter Cord
3 piece setup (~1.3m from each piece)
2 piece setup (~2m from each piece)

4 Meter Cord
3 Piece (~.66m from each piece)
2 Piece (~1m from each piece)

My .04c worth
Chris : )