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Guide for beginner 3-May-2008 At 4:24:46 PM Sharp_ender

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Hi Li

See.... I told you so!

M9 wrote;
>Until you find a guide for specific instruction you may be able to link
>up with a person of similar ability and gain further experience while climbing
>well within your present ability. This can be considerably enhanced by
>background reading from instructional books and practising the techniques
>involved at ground level, or on very easy climbs.
>You can critique each other (belay setups, gear placements/removals etc),
>and learn in unison.
>This approach obviously has potential risk if done in an offhand manner,
>however there are considerable amongst us who learnt (or supplemented our
>learning), in this fashion, and it does wonders for the confidence to incrementally
>progress to harder things.
>
>Self rescue techniques is one area that good books can help supplement
>hands on practise with ...
>
>PS ... some of us even survived our mistakes!

Here's my two cents;

Self Rescue is fine but everything comes from your anchor. Learn to evaluate anchors...then you can build your own.... and evaluate them. If your don't like it, change it. Keep them simple and SERNE [(acronym) AMGA and John long approved] Secure, Equalized, Redundant, No Extention.

Toprope anchors can become lead anchors with time and practice, practice, practice. Build a few at the ground and evaluate them. Once you can build anchors you can toprope any place you can get on top of!

There will be no stopping you then.

Rock On
JP