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25-NOV-2004

Climbing Rack picture #3

I've updated the rack with some used gear I bought from a guy in the Sunset. I've added some older stoppers and hexes (doubling sizes I thought I'd need extras for). The hexes are cord bound instead of wired (I chopped off the old spectra and recorded them). Also with the deal came a dozen or so medium runners and maybe 20 biners - all old school (for me) style, including 5 chouinard biners, which I'm keeping for fun and not using. The others are all BD D's and a couple of ovals (and 1 bent gate), marked in KG and not KN. Since I have a lot of newer biners and runners, I plan to use the older ones as extra rappelling hardware. The runners may or may not hold falls so I won't use them for lead, but they're intact and will likely hold a rappel (I hope, I hope).
I also picked up 10 BD LiveWire biners, which were discounted for cosmetic blemishes, 2 more OP locking D's (I really like the extra room these give the rope on the bolt hangars) and a CB'd BD ATC-XP which I gave away and replaced (explained in another picture). There are several more 48" mammut dyneema runners added, but I've been electricians coiling all of my runners and cordalettes. Also added a 25 foot or so cordalette to replace the huger one from the last pic, which I gave to slug to work on his knots. I reset one of my longer practice cordalettes to be the bottom half of a texas prussik.
Note also the two coils of purple 8mm static line - these are half coils cut from a 60m coil I bought when I went to do the MR on Whitney alone. I'd heard sketchy stories about coming down the last bit of the MR, and wanted to be able to rap if it seemed too weird for me. It ended up being fine, but I did take the rope, a few stoppers, a couple of slings, a locking biner and enough tape to be able to make my own diaper harnass, and I could munter hitch. Saved weight (without my harnass and a belay device), while making me feel better, and learning a new trick.

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