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    What Do You Carry While Climbing - Basic Gear?

    Surely something to get hung-up and lost in the tree. Though they have their place.
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    What Do You Carry While Climbing - Basic Gear?

    45 ft. with a clean return! That's championship throwing there. I didn't know about the Willits gig. Funny.
  3. gf beranek

    What Do You Carry While Climbing - Basic Gear?

    Basic Pfluger Medalest 1498, manual, right / left reversible. Full up with 60 ft. of 1.8 Zing-it, figure about 6 oz.. Comes in mighty handy when you need it., and can make you kind of lazy too.
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    What Do You Carry While Climbing - Basic Gear?

    It's much easier than it sounds, really. I learned it in the 70's practicing with the throwline. A couple of times, blundering, the weight shot back at me and I thought... how did it do that? Eventually I figured it out. Now the name 'boomarang' was coined by a friend named Mike Rantala.
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    What Do You Carry While Climbing - Basic Gear?

    Now Stig, if I recall correctly, said one of his apprentice was reaching distances, with clean successful returns, exceeding 30 feet! I've accomplished farther reaches, but not in a single clean shot. What I mean is you can use more than 1 limb, between you and the target, to work the...
  6. gf beranek

    What Do You Carry While Climbing - Basic Gear?

    Boom-a-wrang shot, Cory! You don't know the boomawrang shot?
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    What Do You Carry While Climbing - Basic Gear?

    Climbing conifers back to back: limb it up, top it out and chunk it down, advancing my climbine, rigging limbs, and traversing into to the next tree for another go ... my 60' throwline on a fly-reel, come in sooo handy. Spiderman stuff. Anybody else?
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