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Re: [csproul] Adding rap rings to anchor?:
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corno32
Oct 22, 2012, 6:52 PM
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csproul wrote: Yes, you could likely just use a quicklinks and rap rings...but have you considered that they are like that for a reason? If there is an established rap route or walk-off elsewhere then perhaps the bolts do not have rings on purpose. Especially if the route is popular, the developer may have done this on purpose to prevent a backup from people rapping back down a popular route. This may not be the case, but you might want to try and find out before installing hardware that might just disappear.
thanks for the reply
Yes, and no I don't see any special reason for it to be sans rings. As I mentioned there is a rap station but it's typically tied up with someone belaying off it, if you really have to there is a long walk off.
The anchor in question is older and it's at the top of a seldom led R rated mixed gear/bolt climb, that most top rope after leading the adjacent trad climb. So it will work out nicely in that you can do the normal clean and rap after you lead the mixed climb or tope rope it, and get off the wall.
I suppose you could make a case that they shouldn't be there so that someone doesn't throw a rope down on someone doing an R rated climb. That's about like saying no R rated climb should have rap rings at the top though. The situation is no different than setting up any other climb/rap from the top you don't do it if someone's coming up near, and to get to the mixed climb you'll have just led the climb 10 feet to the right of it anyway.
(This post was edited by corno32 on Oct 22, 2012, 6:55 PM)
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Post edited by corno32
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