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Anchor testing (PV)-commercial climbing sites Vic 19-Jul-2010 At 3:49:45 PM cruze

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On 19/07/2010 nmonteith wrote:
>I doubt any of the anchors will be designed as rap stations. They are to
>be used as anchors for top-ropes and fixed single abseil ropes for guiding.

Well in this instance the top ropes would be over a little climbed grade 23 sharp crimp fest off the silver knight block and positioned well set back from a slabby finish thereby requiring another static line to extend out to the climb, or would be for fixed single abseil ropes for guiding where accessing the abseil station is not straight forward and the abseil provided would be sh1thouse - ie angling down across a slab to abseil a squeeze chimney or a 10 m abseil to a big ledge then abseil 2 m to another ledge then abseil at over chockstones to the ground. If they were designed to abseil the major buttress then they could have literally been placed in 100 better places.