
Unroped aid soloist is a bit of a special niche.
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 18:57, Reply)

is all the gear anyone should need.
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 22:11, Reply)

slings? People always leave slings for abseiling, why bother?
I briefly climbed with someone who was more interested in scavenging gear from cracks than finishing the route. He had many nuts and and quite a few friends, which even back in those days might have been in place for a looong time. It was actually the fucking waiting that put me off him, not the safety aspect. Although I never let him use his rope.
( , Wed 4 Jul 2018, 22:24, Reply)

vimeo.com/106265007
( , Thu 5 Jul 2018, 10:20, Reply)

but Tom Randall is a lovely guy. Perfectly happy to talk to a bumbly like me!
Talking of dodgy old fixed gear I went looking for the ring piton at paviland a couple of years ago. For my sins I found it, and decided to do the walk around instead of abseiling.
( , Thu 5 Jul 2018, 20:27, Reply)

drilled, pegged and lashed by his own hand. Fred never trusted putting his peg into a hole made by another man.
( , Thu 5 Jul 2018, 22:01, Reply)