Timeline for If an autoblock inteferes with a belay device will a fireman belay have any effect?
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| Dec 16, 2017 at 20:56 | history | edited | Charlie Brumbaugh |
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| May 7, 2014 at 21:19 | comment | added | user2169 | If you're the first one rapping off, then you don't have the option of getting a fireman's belay. I guess the alternative would be to have someone lower you. | |
| May 10, 2013 at 19:57 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackOutdoors/status/332947505300004865 | ||
| May 2, 2013 at 19:42 | answer | added | DudeOnRock | timeline score: 12 | |
| May 1, 2013 at 15:11 | comment | added | DavidR | yeah... there are a lot of bad, or at least sub-optimal, techniques that float around out there. Maybe some of them made more sense a generation ago when climbers used slightly different equipment. And you'll run into climbers who have been doing them for years, sometimes. That doesn't mean that there isn't a scenario where the outdated technique wouldn't cause a problem. | |
| May 1, 2013 at 15:05 | vote | accept | STW | ||
| May 1, 2013 at 15:02 | comment | added | STW | definately good advice that I intend to follow, although I trust my friends who take their lives into their own hands I don't necessarily trust their advice to take my life into my own hands :) | |
| May 1, 2013 at 14:02 | comment | added | DavidR | good question. I'd also repeat my advice yesterday, that if you're having continued questions about basic aspects of climbing (like rappelling safely), you should probably seek information from a formal source... a book, or maybe even a class. If you can afford it, a lot of guide services offer 2 or 3 day programs where a guide will spend a full weekend outdoors teaching trad climbing to a class of 1 or 2 students. You can have a genuine expert watch you closely for several days while you're actually climbing on real rock, teaching and correcting as you go. :) | |
| May 1, 2013 at 13:56 | answer | added | DavidR | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 1, 2013 at 12:30 | comment | added | STW | ...and for the record: until I'm very comfortable/confident with an autoblock I'll only be using them in the gym while practicing, and using a fireman belay outdoors :) | |
| May 1, 2013 at 12:29 | history | asked | STW | CC BY-SA 3.0 |