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Getting Started

having-the-gear

Essential Gear

Getting Ready to Climb

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Placing Protection

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Being a Competent Leader

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Building Anchors

being-a-safe-belayer

Being a Safe Belayer

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Rope Management

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Rappelling

expecting-the-unexpected

Expecting the Unexpected

<shortcode type="jwplayer" props='{"jw_media_id":"A6OW537m"}'></shortcode> <h2>The Lead Protection System</h2> <p>To protect ourselves from falling, we rely on several strategies—movement skills, limiting our exposure at certain times, and the fall-protection system (the use of our equipment to keep us off the deck when we’re rappelling, climbing, or just hanging out on the side of a cliff).</p> <p>In trad climbing, we typically place our own protection or use natural features like trees, threaded pockets and holes, or boulders as protection points. It demands a high level of technical skill to maintain safety.</p> <p>Placing our own protection and building our own anchors means relying on o...</p>