Another thing to bear in mind with this sliding configuration (without lots of limiter knots) is that you are reducing redundancy - if the equalising sling gets cut/fails (rockfall from above, cut over a sharp edge when you get pulled around in some catastrophe, the sling belongs to your partner who likes keeping leaking car batteries in the boot of his car, whatever else your paranoia can imagine) the system fails. Not a high likelihood, I know, but I kinda like the warm fuzzy feeling I get when I am not entirely reliant on a single piece of equipment for my belays (in this case the sling). |