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john hansen
climber
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 30, 2016 - 09:31pm PT
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Wonder what they used?
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Mar 30, 2016 - 09:35pm PT
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Munter hitch with a swami belt and no leg loops.
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cotuclimber
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Mar 30, 2016 - 09:36pm PT
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Well that's random.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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Mar 30, 2016 - 09:38pm PT
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They swapped leads.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Mar 30, 2016 - 09:48pm PT
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DMT, that's what Yerian said....
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Mar 30, 2016 - 10:09pm PT
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DMT, we are working on a book together and this came up so as they say, it's from the horses mouth. :)
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Mar 31, 2016 - 12:46am PT
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Interesting they were not hip belaying.
Is your book limited to the BY or more inclusive?
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Mar 31, 2016 - 01:43am PT
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Munter hitch with a . . . . . .
. . . . . Chouinard Pearabiner screw-gate carabiner?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Mar 31, 2016 - 06:55am PT
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What Lynne said is what Dave mentioned to me. Though he had a story of Bachar showing up one day with leg loops, and taking a ginormous fall that Dave caught on a swami w/o Leg loops😎
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Mar 31, 2016 - 07:24am PT
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Great question, really. Gotta be on a pear shaped biner right? The nerd in me wants to know...
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slabbo
Trad climber
colo south
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Mar 31, 2016 - 07:34am PT
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I don't think the Chouinard pearabiner was out in '81 ?
i know when i failed on BY it was swami and a sticht plate !
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Mar 31, 2016 - 07:56am PT
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Yerian says it was a big D shaped,screwgate, European, but doesn't remember the name.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Mar 31, 2016 - 08:20am PT
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I thought I was the only guy who likes the Munther Hitch.
I would have guessed hip belay. Because if you fall on that route, what difference does it make?
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Mar 31, 2016 - 11:02am PT
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In 1981 Bachar was in Europe and did Chasin' the Train prior to the BY.
Pretty sure Lechlinski was with him for that.
When they came back, they were all about the Munter hitch.
For a while, a bunch of us adopted it.
Somebody, Mari I think, made up this lore about "Freddy Munter".
We were always making up singsong images and crazy parables about mundane stuff, like the Munter hitch ...
Mike also brought back a pair of leg loops from that trip.
Leg loops! Sacrilege.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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Mar 31, 2016 - 11:18am PT
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Always liked the simplicity of the Munter Hitch. I actually wore grooves in a couple of locking pear 'biners using it. Also belayed with double ropes using munter hitches; but what a PITA.
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slabbo
Trad climber
colo south
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Mar 31, 2016 - 02:52pm PT
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I remember my first Valley visit and my belayer was " got you bomber on a Munter" It looked like a clove hitch that he screwed up,,I didn't want to fall off
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Mar 31, 2016 - 03:14pm PT
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I love obscure questions like this.
Edit: Not being facetious, either.
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Mar 31, 2016 - 05:56pm PT
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Peace
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 31, 2016 - 06:15pm PT
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Munter hitch twists the rope like sh!t.
That's it's biggest con.
But I used it for years too.
But the twist is heinous ..
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Mar 31, 2016 - 09:26pm PT
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But the twist is heinous ..
But I'd bet WB is old enough to know the twist...
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