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Yes, I will agree 100% that a climber needs to try as many options and different methods as he or she can find to improve their climbing skills and to make an ardious job and sometimes aggrivatting job as pleasant as possible. Then it is up to the individual to either use the new method or discard it like you said.
With that said let's get back to the small prussik.
Stowing the prussik in the manner that has been described then I will agree that it is faster and could even be easier that the loop runner method.
Again, I differ from the author as I don't use a biner for attachment of the lanyard end. I have gone the biner route on the end of a lanyard and went back to a snap. To me it is much easier using a snap verses the biner. The biner felt awkward in both motions of attaching and removing it from the side d ring. Without unpacking my gear I don't think the loop end of the prussik stowed inside of a sanp would work as well as it would with a biner.
In all fairness to the author I think the use of the small prussik is a brillant idea. It side steps and avoids many issues of the evils of side loading a biner or a snap if you were to choke it around a limb. If I have come on a little strong on this subject that wasn't my intention at all.
Frans, you do need to move. The trees are much cleaner east of the Misssisloppy River
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. I have noticed this about using a mechanical adjuster as the preferred adjuster for the left coast crowd, others have made that same comment about pitch locking up a cord. Also I noticed in the GRCS vid the climber was using a Gibbs. Was that shot out in California??? I used my Gibbs with 3 strand last fall for a pine removal last fall to spare my good lanyard from the dreaded pitch. No thanks. I"ll stick with my FP.