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Warning: 169 kg breaking strength lower offs 3-Apr-2009 At 12:25:31 PM devlin66

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I tend to think that each climb should be taken on it's merits as for anchor equipment. I can see for instance that clip and go's are great for places like KP, Nowra and predominately shorter sport crags. Longer climbs, maybe, and multipitches, definitely, can be better with rethread anchors with replaceable wear points.

For soemwhere like KP I would like to see all of the top anchors fixed with double clip and go's. This is a personal desire as when I go to climb there I am 9 times out of 10 on a time limit. Wasteing time rethreading after only 15m of climbing gives me the irrates. Though I do save time as there usually is only two bolts per climb. Hehe.

I agree that a biner specifically designed for this purpose would be better that what is being used. We, as a community, are starting to realise that making do with what we can find is not the way forward. Maybe an approach to one of the gear manufacturers to produce what we are after is something that can be looked into.