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Multi Rope Rapelling Question 28-Feb-2013 At 5:48:12 PM Tim_1964

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lol, thanks again all - I learnt what was called a 're-belay' on a 40m pitch in Midnight Hole cave near Lune River, Tas. I was using a rack descender, was 10m down and put the rack on upside down....anyway, now very comfortable with up, down, and around knots but will be building up and testing on a tree and smaller rock before going live. Regarding the project - hard to explain - what do you do when you find a bloody great mountain (or two) that no-one seems to have climbed....possibly cos its unclimbable - yet to be determined. My brain cant get the notion that there is soooo much rock on these two mountains - surely it cant all be choss lol. probably is. but still, there is a mountain to be climbed. I just have to work out how. Trad looks iffy cos of choss. Another interesting thing is that I have been doing a lot of self belay with a croll and a couple of prussiks, backed up by F8 knots on a second rope every 3m. So anyway, how does one climb a mountain if trad wont work lol........so should I rap in and then climb using the rope as a 'fixed rope' and self belay - philosophical/rhetorical question....