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Burnham, in your climbing classes do you have the students tie a figure 8 in the line between the bridge and the tautline/Blake's?

Fifteen years of climbing on a tautline hitch and I absolutely refused to tie a figure eight knot between the hitch and the bridge. The bosses at Davey gave me hell about it until I made them describe the acceptable circumstances for cutting an injured climber's rope between the bridge and the...

Ground guys will frig you up every time. My biggest fear climbing was making sure the ground guys didn't put me in danger. And aerial rescue? Forget it! They were more likely to feed the end of my lifeline into the chipper and drag me down out of the tree. I miss climbing about like I miss...