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What do you think of the Simond 120 cm rope ring. What would are the pros and cons be, and when might one use one?

Hello. What's the name of the route you refer to? I keep hearing Canadian Arete.

Please could you do a video about the Kong Impact Shock Absorber?

Thanks as always for the great content! Do you obtain insurance for climbing for the 90 days? BMC cover is nearly £700 for a couple to simply sport climb in the EU for 90 days and the other insureres do not inspire confidence as to what they understand about climbing terms...

Never have used one. I'm tied into the rope and know how to tie a clove hitch. Why would you ever need one? 😂

Why do you prefer this over the creek 50?

Anyone tried "Scarpa Rapid"? running/approch hybrid shoes...

Just discovered this channel. Love It. Great information. Can you do an update to this video? What’s changed on your Single Pitch Trad Rack as of today? Thanks. 🫡🫡

Just in principle, shouldn’t you tie off the munter hitch with a mule overhand, so you can remove the tube without any concern about the munter backing up the autoblock?

I absolutely hate slings.I don't know why. But they look like garbage.I don't trust em. I trust rope more

Is your second set up using locking carabiners on the ring considered using the fixed gear?

no no, huel top

I Really enjoy your videos mate ! Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge whit people like me just starting out journey into climbing !!

Only the non-breathable actually work. Ponchos get great ventilation

Good information, not a rant

Scrambling to me is fast mountaineering compared to the slow pace you usually find in the States. I was in the Alps for a month and half and my entire mindset of climbing was changed after that. Fast and light, fast and light, that is my new mantra. It sent me on a whole new buying spree in finding gear that fits the mantra. Granted the way the system in the Alps works with having huts and shelters differs way more than what we have here in the States, but I still enjoy the new mindset and bringing it home while climbing there.

I love your content! so helpful! It was so hard to find information about mountaineering for me until I found you. thank you for doing what you do, suddenly I find my life full of opportunities after having no information and no hope. planning my frist summit in summer... if you ever go on an expedition in the greater Caucasus, I would love to join :') with lots of love from Georgia✊✊

Wetting out doesn't mean the water comes through though. It's just means the outer layer is saturated. The water still needs to get through the ePTFE layer, which is the waterproof layer. I think you're mentally connecting the fact that when the DWR has gone the jacket fails but I suspect that is due to the fact that that takes a few years and by then the membrane has started to fail or go contaminated. I''m not a Goretex fan especially but I've been out in new Goretex jackets, backpacking for a couple of days in heavy rain etc and they don't leak, other than a bit of water at the cuffs or zips etc but the fabric is waterproof IME.

When I learned to toprope at The Castle in North London, as far as I can remember, we weren't taught buddy checking.

Well that put that argument to bed…. Thanks. Snapgates “Yes” but use your mountain judgement too. Kinda funny that I’m not the only one that has to put up with the noise of military aircraft, I get the same in the Lake District when instructing paddle sport on Lake Windermere. Keep up the great work. Nedders

It's been a few months now, how're you finding this rope? Still enjoying it? I'm considering picking this up as my first rope for scrambling here in the UK. Cheers.

Cold and wet or warm and wet - Perfect description of waterproof gear

I really like the bulletproof carabiners. I try to avoid my rope running over Aluminium. Keeps my rope nice and clean.

I just have one pair which are La Sportiva Solution Comps. Do you remember, on UKC, when you saw the hole in one of my Tenaya Oasi? 😂

Bring back storm flaps and face flaps on the hood. I had a sprayway goretex XCR jacket in the late 2000s kept me completely dry in driving rain all day. Now i have a Modern ME Lhotse Goretex pro jacket and i get wet through the zip and water running down my face every time.

For the mountain leader assessment, do you recommend a 4 season tent like a fjallraven abisco lite tent or do you think it is fine to have a good 3 season tent like a big agnes copper spur hv ul2 or durston x mid tent? For context, I am looking to do an assessment in the autumn before proper winter comes to the lakes and snowdonia.

Great vid! What's your preferred method of doing this in a hanging belay? Making a pile at your feet is quite hard in a hanging belay, do you flake it over your lanyard/clove hitch?

Back in the 90s the practice was also up through the bottom tie in then run diagonal through the belay loop then up through the top tie in so in theory 3 points 😂

Your videos are really awesome, but they’re too chatty and thus unnecessarily long. It would be awesome to get to the point quicker and cut the length down by 50% or more

Love your videos Easy to learn a whole bunch of techniques, and I really like you explain the pros and cons ! 👌

Diolch yn fawr for your videos. Super helpful, much appreciated

This tent is just what I'm looking for. You can put it up in pooring rain without soaking the inner tent. The condensation problem can easily be fixed with som imagination.

Why are you belaying from above with the atc in your harness instead using guide mode directly attached to the anchor?

The answer is: It's not. Rubbish rear gear loops, no haul loop, not comfortable to hang in or belay in at all. Not sure where on earth they came up with that price.

Paracetamol and ibuprofen are completely different things 😆

deez nuts 6:44

@JBMountainSkills : with the PIP & Connect Adjust (etc) would it be acceptable to clip the master point, extend (not quite to the limit) and belay with a (non guide) plate off the tie in / harness's belay loop? potential to use a crab as a redirect off the master point, face uphill & sit back in the harness, the taught lanyard being somewhere to stack the rope as the second is brought up. great vid; good clear details as always plus excellently controversial clickbait title! :-j

Never been climbing,yet, but was curious as to why climbers wore helmets. I'm like if you fall your still mind fucked. First few seconds I had to laugh at my own reasoning.

Very interesting insight, thank you. I've been trekking/wild camping around the World but I am interested in gaining my ML qualification in the future. Please provide the link to the website you mentioned for information about the assessment etc. Keep up the great content!

5:54 - such a useful way to get the rope around someone!

are mescalito good for winter? thank you!

I know no one recommends not holding the break strand but it’s a nice to have if your climber gets hit by falling rock, trips over, has a seizure etc. Lots of people seem to talk about not holding the break strand like it’s something only people who are ignorant or pure numpties do

Thank you for sharing your expertise so generously! The insights and tips you provide are always spot on and incredibly helpful. Your channel is one of my go-to resources👍

Was this the other climbers first ever trad route? Looks like a lot of traversing to me.

There is no answer tht fits, on the one side you have the "you should be able to use any device having assisted maked you lazy/bad habits" and on the other you have "why not, it makes things safer" both are 100% valid. I guess it boils down to the clibing partners to agree between them what they are comfortable on?

The Klein heist is a directional hitch The problem is that if you actually were to take the fall because say the wire your bailing on blows then the direction that the rope is getting pulled is going to reverse from lowering to lead falling and that hitch only works one way it's better to use the traditional prusik

Beginner question that keeps me awake at night, why clip your lanyard to only one piece of fixed gear? Wouldn't it be better to have redundancy by being clipped to the 2 pieces of fixed gear? I've seen some videos where guys use a PAS or Double Lanyards to clip in to the two pieces but those PAS seem bulky AF. So my question really is: why not clip our single lanyard to the anchor's master point? That way we have the redundancy of being clipped to both bolts (through our anchor), still be on belay, do method 1 or 2, ask for a take, clean the anchor and then lower off? Does that make sense? Sorry in advance if it's a stupid question haha

H2NO is terrible. I have a H2NO Patagonia rain jacket...its fine in light drizzling type of rain or mist, as soon as you get into any heavier rain the jacket soaks through in 5 minutes.

I use the CT Alpine Up for pretty much all my climbing these days. Assisted braking, and the ability to go hands free on a rappel if I need to use both hands for unsnarling knots, etc. Works great in guide mode too.