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Posts Tagged: anchors
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Sep 10
Personal Anchors: A Closer Look
One of the continuing topics I see come up in climbing classes is the use of personal anchors: should you use them, what you should use, what is common practice. This is an age-old debate which I cannot do justice describing in a blog post. There are entire books and papers written on each topic, and depending on how deep you want to go, you can spend all your days buried in scientific data.
Most of us just want to know how to be safe and get outside! So, let’s discuss some areas which are interesting to consider when looking at these safety systems. From here, you can start to think critically about the different options and dig deeper as you wish.
