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Why rope access kooks have no place in climbing 5-May-2015 At 3:48:04 PM One Day Hero

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On 5/05/2015 Snacks wrote:
>You're the only bolter I have heard of that uses a safety back-up line
>while bolting, what gave you that idea? ...

Started doing this prior to starting rope access. A backup rope isn't some kind of genius idea invented by irata, although they probably think they did.

>Instead, they often get volleys of illogical abuse spewed back at them
>from what they collectively refer to as "the climbing community" which
>doesn't seem to help much.

Most of it isn't illogical abuse, it's very sensible suspicion of an industry which sees itself as the only authority when it comes to doing things safely on ropes. I really hope you don't get your irata on like this when coming into contact with land managers. I can't think of anything worse for climbing than having it go down the rope access road.