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Re: [climbingnoise] belayer constant focus on climber:
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sspssp
Apr 1, 2009, 6:38 PM
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climbingnoise wrote: Are grigris as foolproof as this action would lead an ignorant newcomer to believe or is there a way it can appear to be locked but not be?
Depends a lot on the rope. Some of the ropes at my climbing gym are so fat and fuzzy that to lower a climber you have to open the lever with one hand, take your brake hand off the belay rope and use it pull [lead] rope out the top of the grigri.
A thin, slick rope makes a grigri more like an atc.
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