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wyandottecaver wrote::doh:
Your right Andy.
NZcaver wrote:A while back, Clem Akins published a small article in the NSS News about this too. I think it's a great idea, although we usually do the locked Munter, or perhaps use a tree as a belay spool (in an emergency). And of course a locked rack is often used as the anchor for vertical practice.
Todd, unless I misunderstand you (and please correct me if I do), your idea actually requires THREE times as much rope as the pitch depth. If you're at the bottom, you can't lower the guy who gets stuck near the top unless you have another entire pitch length of rope on the bottom to lower with. In our 100' pit/200' rope example, you would need to tie another 100 footer on the former main line in order to still have some rope in your belay device when the patient reaches the bottom.
Anonymous_Coward wrote:NZ, could you point me to Clem's article as in when it came out? I don't remember seeing that but I would like to read it.
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