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marking a rope 9-Feb-2007 At 8:50:53 AM climbau

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On 8/02/2007 bomber pro wrote:
> you can always do what I do, feed
>it through the chains or rings
>then tie the rope together at the ends, then feed it down slowly keeping
>both ropes together, then you
>automaticly have the middle, no matter how long it is!
I have had mega rope twist doing this in the past (was using standard Tube brake style device) and found it easier to tie knots in each end and keep them seperate. However this requires extreme vigilance while abseiling, therefore I believe marking the rope in some way is simpler for identifying the rope's middle. I also like to have the rope marked so I can gauge more easily whilst belaying on multi-pitch climbs how much rope the leader has to play with. This is especially important when doing ground-up ascents of new routes IMHO.