Rock Climbing : Comments
Comments by dbrayack (4)
Article: Photography of Tim Kemple
Nice man, pretty sweet looking through your stuff. You like the 85mm Tilt Shift? Kinda rad....
Nice man, pretty sweet looking through your stuff. You like the 85mm Tilt Shift? Kinda rad....
Article: The Zephyr: 10.3mm of Wholesome Petzl Rope
I liked it...other than "feeling like a cable", it was good...though it didn't clip or feed like a cable.
Article: Mad Science: the Making of Modular Climbing Holds
I've lost a good bit of brain cells doing that...every wonder why I have that nervous tick and my expression goes blank every now and then? Yah too much time with the Fiberglass...
Article: Sterling Nano Editorial Review
I liked the rope myself, though I'm on a pretty strict budget, so I'll be sticking to whatever I can find as bouty for a while.
As far as the Gri Gri is concerned, if I figuratively let go (put a loop of slack between my hand and device), on body weight, it creeps through the Gri-Gri ever so slightly.
But remember, the locking force of a Gri-Gri is proportional to frictional force which is proportional to load: On a hard catch, the rope will definitley lock hard.
Strength is proportional to cross-sectional area. Since the rope is so Skinny, I'm curious if there have been any (gri-gri cut) lab tests with high loads on a 10.2mm and small ropes such as the 9.2.
Feeding was da-bomb, it slide through the Gri-Gri like a hot knife through 4mm spectra.
As far as the Gri Gri is concerned, if I figuratively let go (put a loop of slack between my hand and device), on body weight, it creeps through the Gri-Gri ever so slightly.
But remember, the locking force of a Gri-Gri is proportional to frictional force which is proportional to load: On a hard catch, the rope will definitley lock hard.
Strength is proportional to cross-sectional area. Since the rope is so Skinny, I'm curious if there have been any (gri-gri cut) lab tests with high loads on a 10.2mm and small ropes such as the 9.2.
Feeding was da-bomb, it slide through the Gri-Gri like a hot knife through 4mm spectra.





