{"id":1664,"date":"2009-11-29T16:35:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T23:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allclimbing.com\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2009-11-29T16:35:35","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T23:35:35","slug":"extending-cam-slings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/extending-cam-slings\/","title":{"rendered":"Extending Cam Slings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.allclimbing.com\/images\/Extending_a_Cam_Sling-20091129-163434.jpg?w=750\" style=\"float: right; padding: 5px;\" title=\"Extending Cam Slings\" alt=\"Extending Cam Slings\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kolin Powick from Black Diamond posted another excellent gear testing article, this time on the different <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackdiamondequipment.com\/en-us\/journal\/climb\/qclab\/qc-lab-extending-a-cam-sling-sling-on-sling\">methods of extending slings on cam placements<\/a>. He illustrates the three common methods he uses (same as mine) and then examines a sling-on-sling approach he thought was dicey.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sling-on-sling method of extending a cam sling does save the use of a biner but in my opinion is cumbersome for both the leader and the second. It also appears to reduce the ultimate strength of the system, however, in most cases not so much as to be the weakest link in a real-world climbing situation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolin Powick from Black Diamond posted another excellent gear testing article, this time on the different methods of extending slings on cam placements. He illustrates the three common methods he uses (same as mine) and then examines a sling-on-sling approach he thought was dicey. The sling-on-sling method of extending a cam sling does save the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[71,88,188],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jRR-qQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}