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edited: NOW I can't even find the damn photo, so words will have to do...

 

A photo in an older (last year) climbing rag showed a guy climbing a crack that wandered back and forth (maybe 10 feet horizontally), and the cams were all clipped short so that the rope held the cams in essentially a horizontal orientation. 3 finger size cams between him and his belayer, all the same orientation.

 

Discuss. Anything wrong with that. Any rules of thumb?

 

I'll go look some more for the photo.

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OK, here it is. Page 49 of Climbing's 2003 Photo Annual.

 

I'm all doped up on Vicodin and pain, so I don't really care if it IS in spray. Spray away.

 

The same thing can happen on a vertical crack. A cam can be placed and clipped short, and as the climber passes the cam the rope and pull it into a horizontal orientation.

 

the next time that cam moves could be during a fall, as it is yanked violently into a downward orientation. All that movement bugs me (and others too) and I tend to put slings on almost all my cams. But I see SO many people in person and in photos who skip that step.

 

What would Gollum do? (WWGD?)

 

I'm outta here for a CT scan. Later on.....

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