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trad + grigri 29-Feb-2012 At 10:43:24 AM Linze

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On 29/02/2012 andesite wrote:
>On 28/02/2012 Linze wrote:
>
>>my partner weighs probably 2/3 of my weight, if that. this means that
>>i have occasional encounters with the ground and we think that the gri
>>gri is the differnce in making this soft rather than hard... so...
>
>You are wrong in this thinking. You are hitting the ground because your
>belayer is being lifted up, not because of the device. Tie the belayer
>down and problem is solved.

..since you mentioned it, of all the things that bug me when climbing it is when i see people tie belayers to the deck under the premise that it will somehow make the activity safer/work better. it creates general discomfort for all invloved. hitting the deck softly is completly acceptable in my mind - getting tossed around while attached to a nearby tree root is the worst thing imaginable...

@ keirall...the response to m9 was more about the disconnect between the single pitch vs multi pitch nature of our respective posts. m9 did read my post wrong/or i wrote it wrong. thanks for offering the advice, though these principles are some of the few that are in my quite sparse bank of trad experience...