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Bowlines - who uses what? 1-May-2013 At 9:16:27 AM technogeekery

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On 1/05/2013 anthonycuskelly wrote:
>so make sure I check that little bugger...

yes, doesn't really matter what knot you use,that is the key. Doing a partner check every time is my routine, and is more about me double checking myself than relying on my partner to check. Have always picked up any issues with my knot myself (and there have been a couple of times where I'd initially been distracted and not finished the knot, picked up on double check) so I've never had a partner pick up an issue before me.

But I have (once) told a partner he could climb when the ATC wasn't properly threaded - rope was through the ATC but when I went to clip it into the belay locker, I didn't get the rope through the biner, just the keeper cable. My sharp eyed leader simply pulled the doubled rope out of the ATC. No harm done, it was on the ground & in a gym, and the rope would have pulled out on the first move - but another story if that first move had been a hard first move off a multipitch ledge. To complete my mortification, this was the fist time I had ever climbed with a new partner - one Mikl Law.

I have modified my checking routine to include pulling the rope back & forth through the ATC as well as checking the screwgate, when I am belaying.