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Thread: ATS as a releasable anchor?
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11-07-2012, 07:05 PM #1
ATS as a releasable anchor?
I recently heard some scuttlebutt over using a Sterling ATS to rig a retrievable anchor. It was talked about in passing so I received no other details. Does anyone have any ideas?
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11-07-2012 07:05 PM # ADS
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11-08-2012, 04:59 PM #2
Retrievable or Releasable?
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11-08-2012, 07:27 PM #3
Guess I am too new...I had no idea there was a difference. Not sure, but I was told retrievable.
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11-08-2012, 09:08 PM #4
You sure you don't mean contingency?
It will work for that.
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11-08-2012, 09:20 PM #5
Nope guy said it was a new trick he would have to show me sometime, and I can't wrap my head on how you would, or even why you would risk leaving your $35 rappel device at the top and rappel on your backup.
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11-09-2012, 08:16 AM #6
Just guessing but probably using the slots as a progress capture device and then pulling a pin out like the fiddlestick concept. With whatever is wrapped around the anchor all coming down together. Not sure would want my ATS coming down like a missle. Actually played around in Moab recently with a fixed anchor that had a rapide. Use the rapide as a PCD instead of using a Biner use a pin and then pull the pin like a fiddlestick. Had people rappel on it with a back up and then pulled the pin from below. Pin came right out. I then re rigged normal and I descended.
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