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| Leaders | DonBarry? |
| Destination | Artificial Rock Wall at Don's house |
| Author | DonBarry? |
| Activity | Climbing |
| Start date | 2007-04-12 |
| Number of days | 1 |
| How many Participants | 8 |
| Report | New club climbers Gabor, Zach, Gil joined Nick Haupt, MattStillerman, Peggy Renwick, Ben Currens, and DonBarry?. Between some bouldering warmups, we rehearsed transition from climb to rappel, including rappel on a Munter hitch for emergency situations. The next hour was spent learning knots and techniques related to transferring loads reversibly -- at the end every person did a full "escape the belay" sequence with a full body weight on the end of the rope, and then resumed the belay on a fixed anchor. Peggy and Ben set up a treadmill for a caving ascending system and demoed it. More climbing finished the evening. |
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