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Canberra Climbers 16-Sep-2009 At 3:44:09 PM evanbb

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On 16/09/2009 widewetandslippery wrote:
>Looks like a solo mission evan. Its not at all lonely soloing those slabs,
>all of your little voices have a chance to have a great conversation.

Looks like I might go Peak Baggin, solo, all the climbers know are busy. Wouldn't mind an EPIRB, just so I stay out of the news.

Either that or I'm going to learn some rope-solo techniques; aid and clean. Here we go, let's start an esoteric gear conversation here too; What possible failure mode exists using an ATC Guide in auto-belay mode while top roping something? I've used it a few times to prussick/climb low angled stuff and have never really seen any problems with it. Clipped direct to the harness, and I might even do it on isolated half ropes, just to double the redundancy.

If nothing comes up I'd like to chuck a dozen laps on one of the cracks down the back of the Cloisters. Nice straight jam crack from big fists down to good hands.