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| bio | website | horuskol.net |
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| location | Adelaide, Australia | |
| age | 33 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 4 months |
| seen | May 3 at 4:24 | |
| stats | profile views | 4 |
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Amateur photographer and sometime explorer.
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Jan 27 |
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How should I check climbing equipment to tell whether it is still safe to use? I'd certainly retire and replace the rope - especially if it was reasonably well used before storage. I don't know how well webbing holds up in storage - but the question always is: how much would you trust your life on it? |
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Jan 27 |
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What essential items should go in a small first aid kit? Are we talking about a personal first aid kit, or one that would be carried by a first aid trained group leader? |
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Jan 26 |
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Which will keep my food colder longer, draining the melted ice water, or leaving it in the cooler? @Kevin - Mythbusters probably won't do it - these days, something has to be able to explode to make the show ;) |
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Jan 26 |
answered | What hand and finger exercises help with climbing? |
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Jan 26 |
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Why does my belay device have two holes? qualified some specifics |
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Jan 26 |
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Why does my belay device have two holes? @Qwerky - I was answering in a more general sense... there are lots of belay device designs out there, but I agree, in this specific instance, the belay device is symmetric. |
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Jan 26 |
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How do I inspect a climbing rope? Top-rope climbing is where someone is climbing at the bottom end of a rope - either the belayer is at the top pulling the rope up, our it passes through a top-anchor back to a belayer at the foot of the crag. Lead climbing involves the climber dragging rope up behind them and placing add they go |
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Jan 26 |
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Why does my belay device have two holes? added abseiling |
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Jan 26 |
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Why does my belay device have two holes? Been a while since I abseiled - is this instead of a figure-eight, or some other part of the system? |
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Jan 26 |
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Why does my belay device have two holes? Been a while since I abseiled - is this instead of a figure-eight, or some other part of the system? |
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Jan 26 |
answered | Why does my belay device have two holes? |
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Jan 26 |
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How can you navigate without a compass or GPS true - but to a novice that doesn't know any better, your answer can kind of read like "leave the compass at home" |
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Jan 25 |
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How do I inspect a climbing rope? yeah - nothing worse than driving for hours only to find that a critical bit of gear is not up to the job :p |
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Jan 25 |
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Where can I find information on letterboxing in my area? I'd be rather timid about opening random boxes on Dartmoor - especially around the Okehampton area. The military regularly conduct live firing exercises (though they are thoughtful and close the ranges to the public on these occasions) - and unexploded ordnance can easily be picked up by the unwary walker... |
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Jan 25 |
answered | What can I do to help relieve joint pain in fingers after climbing? |
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Jan 25 |
awarded | Vox Populi |
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Jan 25 |
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When rock climbing, what is the difference between top-roping and leading? and climbing rope will stretch 30% - plus, slack in the system... this is how I almost ended up on the floor of a climbing centre from the top of a 12 metre wall... |
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Jan 25 |
answered | In rock-climbing, how do I safely belay another climber? |
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Jan 25 |
awarded | Suffrage |
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Jan 25 |
answered | How do I inspect a climbing rope? |
