PSA: Check your ropes before every climb. I learned the hard way.

Last week in Denver, I grabbed my main climbing line like always. Didn't notice the fray near the eye splice. Two hours up a big elm, it snapped on a redirect. I fell 12 feet, broke my ankle. Lucky it wasn't worse. Anyone else check their gear daily or just me?

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the_adam2mo ago

Did you check the eye splice itself or just run your hand along the rope?

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felix_lane992mo ago

...used to just give it a quick feel and call it good, but yeah this post made me stop and actually look close at the splices every time now.

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the_hayden2mo ago

Man it's wild how the little stuff like that can catch up with you later... never thought about how different rope materials might hide damage better than others until I messed up a dyneema line that looked totally fine.

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