QAS vs. Cowstail Terminology
Posted: Nov 4, 2006 2:04 pm
This would have been off topic in the <a href="http://www.caves.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=22198#22198">Vertical Confession</a> post, so I'm asking it here.
I have always thought that a QAS and a cowstail were two different things. I'm under the impression that a QAS is basically an ascender attached to your harness via some sort of tether and that a Cowstail is a carabiner attached to your harness via some sort of tether.
Are these TAG regional distinctions? Perhaps I have been completely wrong in my understanding as to how everyone else defines these two very different things.
paul wrote:Cowstail (or QAS as often used over there in US!).
I have always thought that a QAS and a cowstail were two different things. I'm under the impression that a QAS is basically an ascender attached to your harness via some sort of tether and that a Cowstail is a carabiner attached to your harness via some sort of tether.
Are these TAG regional distinctions? Perhaps I have been completely wrong in my understanding as to how everyone else defines these two very different things.