Cobra_Commander

The depth of knowledge and breadth of topic from this renaissance man. He knows what's good for the french better than the french themselves. In summary, is there any question JayB is a superstar?

I wonder if the dog kennel is in the shape of Jabba's skiff

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He doesn't realize he's about to be paid a visit by cloned dinosaurs and a giant mentally-disturbed amoeba from the GMO facilities in Zurich. cooooobbrr-nevermind.

Ah, yes. I didn't realize one was allowed to maintain a herd of grad students in the metro area. I know two or so chickens are allowed.

I am good at making plans. Such as the time I hid miniaturized troops inside Christmas presents to take over the world.

Clearly you have an above-average pocketry quotient worthy of protection.

I am exceedingly adept at talking a big game

well you're missing out on all the great deals on pocket protectors for socially maladjusted grad students

stupid ivy leaguers!

I posit the owner is a chain-smoking naked violin street player

for immediate release!!! turns out the tallest spotter takes 90% of the load, no distribution at all! he may have been wearing cords too!!!! blistering berkshards!

"horse pole"

not as bad as that martha stewart episode where they were embroidering crash pads

CBS has been waiting his entire life for just this thread, don't spoil it for him.

I'm ordering some Hip Maternity & Baby (Winter Clearance!)

so much free sean john clothing! Seeing how google ads are targeted, that's some funny commentary on this site's patrons.

no shit Scurlock

well just rent a suite in the stadium then. you would have a nice lawn.

arosed jackov partner yet? I gym sport wood climb, jackov

I believe "just a little" was their conclusion. It is nice to have such easy access to individuals like Long who have put so much time into this. But to be honest, I found his anchor book (admittedly an old version) to be overly complicated, perhaps causing new climbers to be overly focused on anchor building and less focused on equally important safety issues. It is nice to see such openness to change however, and he seems like a great guy with obviously a ton of practical experience.

I have not seen it online but was given a presentation of it at a Rigging for Rescue seminar. The data may have been presented at ITRS at some point. I'll see if I can find it. The Trango device mimics what was called the "Load Distributing Anchor" used by a number of rescue units and featured in "On Rope" the classic caver's vertical techniques book. It looks like it is doing something when you shift the load around, but in reality, it's not doing much according to R for R, who usually is fairly cautious in making these statements.

I realize all of that as I have read the thread. I agree with Matt that I would still run away if I saw some of those rube goldberg anchors used. to add: I can't believe people continue to bring up that Trango alpine equalizer or similar home-brew rigs. Rigging for Rescue did plenty of testing of this setup and it just does not do anything close to equalization, and it's damn complicated. They even substituted the biners for pulleys, still no good. But here it is, yet again.

My AMGA comment was more to illustrate the sheer volume of use the cordolette has seen, (and taken big falls) yet one doesn't hear about anchors failing all over the world because of it. It was not suggesting an AMGA endorsement, simply that it has seen heavy use w/o consequence. Perhaps there is a stronger method of linking pieces together. However there is something to be said for a very simple and clean power point that can be clipped and cleaned quickly, and w/o error. Of course it is important to be open to new data, as you suggest.

hah perhaps, perhaps