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General Climbing Discussion

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Climbing rack in Carry on Luggage 9-Jan-2007 At 10:58:17 PM vwills
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Carried a rope and rack in my hand baggage around the world, until I was leaving Nepal for Thailand. I had to take the rope out before I was allowed through security in Kathmandu. It did turn up, a tangled mess on the carousel in Bangkok.

I have found the main trouble with a rack on flights is no one knows what it is, and all the metal seems to mask other items so you get the full visual inspection of luggage every time. It has left me sprinting for gates on occasion (on domestic flights to Melbourne particularly) Had trouble with a headtorch leaving Mumbai. Apparently the wiring and batteries looked suspicious.

I always wear mountaineering boots on planes but the amount of metal in them often means you have to take them off and run them through Xray. Was once threatened with a $10 000 fine by a surly quarantine chap in Queenstown for importing "industrial quantities" of soil in the boot sole after I had walked through mud on the way to the airport. That was after I had apologetically drawn it to their attention rather than clean them in the puddles on the tarmac before I got to customs!

Virgin is about to scrap its sporting goods policy.

I hate Jetstar. Always late. Always dirty. Wont give you an extra kilo without a lecture or a fee. Flew with Emirates to NZ last week. Very nice airline, great food, amazing inflight entertainment, and the return flight was cheaper than Jetstar, Virgin or Freedom given the time of year.

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