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Advice for rack additions 18-Mar-2012 At 4:54:34 PM Nova

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On 18/03/2012 Wendy wrote:
>On 17/03/2012 83nf15h wrote:
>
>>but was leading trad and sport up to low 20's while also doing a bit
>of
>>top roping and some multi pitch.
>
>You were climbing early 20s trad on that rack?? In fact, you are capable
>of climbing early 20s trad and you need advice on what gear to buy and
>haven't heard of rps? I'm a little confused.
>
>Go and climb a few things and see what you run out of. I would rarely
>leave the ground on any reasonably graded route without a double set of
>nuts to 8 plus single 9, maybe 10 and an emergency rp or 2, cams from green
>alien to 3 camalot, doubles of mid range or anything looking likely to
>be used a lot, bigger if it looks likely, bonus rps if it looks likely
>or Simey's been hassling me. i never bother with hexes, tricams, ball nuts,
>offsets and all that wierd shit people rave about. i should start a Damo
>like beer campaign on offsets. I carry a fair few slings and more like
>15 quickdraws. Lightweight everything I can get my hands on. No point
>buying clunky old school heavy gear these days. I use a 50m rope pretty
>standardly. I'd get a set of double 50s before I bothered buying a longer
>single.

Thanks for the advice Wendy, i was able to lead the low 20's with that rack as they were very short! mainly under 20m.

And most of the things mentioned i knew that i needed but the ones i did not (RP's included :P) look very useful!

One of the main things i wanted to know is what else was going to be useful for Araps and Grampians as i have not yet been.