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Seating trad gear vs making your partner happy 17-Nov-2011 At 2:37:58 PM rolsen1

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On 17/11/2011 kieranl wrote:
>So, before you've placed a lot of gear you are trusting your life to it.
>I appreciate that it's a much more controllable environment but I've seen
>inexperienced climbers do some truly bizarre things with anchors. I'd prefer
>to have people do lots of leading on things like Tiptoe Ridge and place
>lots of gear and get more of an eye for placing things on the move.

That's exactly what I was saying.

Side note: finally did tip toe ridge last year with some beginners (climbed as two pairs, experienced seconds) who have been climbing with us for a couple of years on and off, they have done lots of trad seconding but no leading. Neither of the (inexperienced) leaders could work out how to rig the rap off the pinnacle, had to tell them.