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Twitter Ropes? 2-Jul-2016 At 9:03:41 AM Wendy

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I have no idea about Trestec but I have this theory that if gear meets uiaa or ce standards they will be fine. It just becomes a matter of durability, ease of use etc etc.

On the topic of thin doubles though, I have just retired a pair of edelrid 7.8s. I got 5 years out of them. Douglas never liked them because he hated looking down at taking a full sized fall onto just one of these shoes strings, and also found abseiling on them hard to control, but I loved them. Fantastic to clip, light, low drag. I didn't find it a problem holding falls on them. I thought they would fuzz up more but they remained pretty slick to the end. I retired them because I knew they'd done a truck load of climbing and I could find soft spots in them but most of the length still looked remarkably good. Ben would probably still use them.