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Victorian Rack 18-Nov-2011 At 12:43:41 PM bones

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On 18/11/2011 nmonteith wrote:
>Many sport crags in Europe REQUIRE a 70m rope to lower-off. These sort
>of pitches also require a LOT of quickdraws. You certainly want to take
>at minimum 20 quickdraws to a place like Kalymnos. I'd suggest double that
>really so you can leave draws on a project for a few days and have other
>draws to do the warmups. Normally i wouldn't take more than 15 draws on
>a trip - lucky for me someone told me how many to take!

This comment interests me as I'm trying to decide what to do about ropes for a big trip next year. I'll be sport climbing in France for a long time but also doing some big multipitch climbs in the Alps and elsewhere. I'd like to bring only two ropes but not sure which two. I was thinking a 60 metre thin-ish single rope for sport and double it up with a 60 metre even thinner double rope for multipitch.
Will I need a 70m? Should I just suck it up and carry three ropes (uurgghh) or up the length of the thin single?