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I feel like there's different reasons to use a half rope or a single rope. I mean you aren't usually clipping in the same draw on each half rope anyways because
by mnky9800n 5y ago
I feel like there's different reasons to use a half rope or a single rope. I mean you aren't usually clipping in the same draw on each half rope anyways because a) putting both ropes in the same draw can cause them to cut each other from frictional shearing on a fall, and b) the fall will be really hard, and perhaps could injure you, since you fall on two springs instead of one. I assume you know this because you are so safety considerate.
- WalterBright 5y agoI don't know much about modern climbing technology. But when I see: 1. somebody hanging on to a cliff with their fingernails and toenails, no safety rope 2. betting their life on a piton that may have a crack in it, or the rock may be soft, or the rock has a fault in it and may spall 3. betting on a single rope which may have an undetected internal flaw 4. roped to a moron who may fall and pull me off with him (has happened to climbers) it's nope nope nope nope for me. I also stay 10 feet back from a cliff edge, because the extra weight may cause the edge to give way. You guys can do as you like, though. It's a free country!