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New anchors at Araps - What do you reckon? 10-Jan-2017 At 9:10:43 AM kieranl

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On 9/01/2017 Eduardo Slabofvic wrote:
>On 9/01/2017 gordoste wrote:
>> at Araps anchors should only be placed for erosion prevention
>>or where other descent options are too dangerous.
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>Agreed
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>So a rap station that services an area. Not rap stations that service
>routes.
Good in principle, not always feasible. Morfydd,Kinkaid area for example.

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>and 1 rap station for the area, not three (or 4, or 5);
Some areas are so heavily used that the single rap station becomes a choke point and risk (eg Preludes Wall)

> and that rap station
>shouldn't place the fall line over another route that someone might be
>on.
In practice very difficult to achieve. If you look around there's not that many raps at Arapiles that meet this brief. One of the ironies is that putting a rap station above a piece of rock that people rarely climb can change that situation (eg Skylark)

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>Plus rap stations, not anchors - as they're different things.
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Agreed

These are all things to keep in mind when planning a rap point but as rigid rules they often don't work.