Re: Leaving Anchors/Ropes i.e. Royal Arch
Jan,Go buy yourself 50' of CanyonFire 8.3 mm rope for around $60. It will weigh in at a whole 1.92 pounds and you can hang it on your living room wall and...
scott.marley 2014-05-09 12:09:51 #75881
Re: Leaving Anchors/Ropes i.e. Royal Arch
I'm with John re the ropes. Sure, we could pack one for our RA rappel, but that would mean carrying six pounds of rope 40 miles in order to downclimb twenty...
jan_swafford 2014-05-09 11:50:28 #75880
Re: Leaving Anchors/Ropes i.e. Royal Arch
John,What about the goofy ropes people leave on the little downclimb on the Bill Hall trail? Should a rope be left there? Or how about leaving a rope at the...
scott.marley 2014-05-09 09:25:06 #75879
Re: Leaving Anchors/Ropes i.e. Royal Arch
We typically ridicule the excessive cairns. While standing in a worn in piece of trail with a cairn built in the path we say "Whew! Thank goodness this...
ned.bryant 2014-05-09 09:02:31 #75878
Re: Leaving Anchors/Ropes i.e. Royal Arch
I disagree. On a very popular route like this, and where the rope and anchor is not visible from any distance (I have a photo we took after we did the...
johngeyles 2014-05-09 09:00:26 #75877
Re: Leaving Anchors/Ropes i.e. Royal Arch
I will just say that not all cairns are equal and leave it at that.
On May 9, 2014, at 06:11, JanSwaff@... [Grand_Canyon_Hikers] wrote:
> For the record, I...
Doug Nering 2014-05-09 08:51:16 #75876
Re: Leaving Anchors/Ropes i.e. Royal Arch
Oh, and don't get me started on cairns. What is it with people and their need to build cairns all over the place? Many cairns have been built in places where...
scott.marley 2014-05-09 07:52:41 #75875
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