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Descending off Multipitch? 5-Oct-2010 At 5:38:54 PM MrsM10iswhereitsat.

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On 20/09/2010 Mr hargs wrote:
>Get a competent person to show you. Then get them to make sure you're
>capable of performing these practical skills, preferably in a controlled
>environment. (That doesn't mean inside, by the way. You can have a perfectly
>well-controlled environment outside.) But you don't want to be figuring
>this sh*t out on your own, or 50m off the ground. If you make a mistake,
>you'll only have 1.7 seconds to work out what went wrong and that really
>won't be long enough.

Is that so dearie?
Is this the same as learning to aid climb while attempting to climb Ozymandias for the first time?

Derek my M10 love showed me that it is all about applying your critical thinking (read grey matter) to the problem at hand. So if one has half a modicum of common sense then they ought to be able to be 50 metres off the deck and still be able to work it out?