dagibbs wrote:
blueeyedclimber wrote:
Harnesses are not made to walk in, they are made for climbing. Why would a manufacturer design something to guard against something that the product is not designed for anyways?
Josh
Harnesses are designed for climbing, yes. But people walk around in harnesses. I don't know about you -- but I, and almost everyone I know of, who is out for a day of cragging will put the harness on in the morning, and take it off at the end of the day. They'll walk from climb to climb wearing the harness, they'll sit down and eat lunch wearing the harness, they'll hike up to set a top-rope in the harness, they'll walk down from the climb in a harness, etc.
If someone designing harnesses did not take into account the way harnesses are commonly used, then that would be incompetent design for the harness.
Yes, we walk around in harnesses. I get that. But where is the evidence that walking is the main contributor (not climbing) to harness wear and tear? I don't buy it.