by Matt Peck » Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:28 pm
Yeah, leave those 50m shoelaces at home. 60 or die. I used a 70 last year and loved it.
Mammut ropes suck, though the flash was allright for a beginner rope. Mark your middle with a black sharpie permanent marker in a stripe at least .5 meters long. You'll curse trying to find that faded 3 inch mark later on.
Buy 2 ropes like Fred said. You'll be hatin the frozen bar of a rope you'll get after the rock rubs off the dry coating.
Take care of your cord! Watch for edges, pull a hate crime on people who step on it, keep it clean, coil it properly, avoid leaving it in your car, and check it by hand for stiffies or nicks after every trip.
Also look online for proper first time uncoiling. If you just use it right out of the package it will kink like a mofo on you. Unwind it in the same way it is coiled the first time.
Then flake it like 10 times.
You can't take the sky from me.