I've been back home for a couple of weeks and things have pretty much returned to normal. Theresa and I had a really nice day on Sunday trekking to Decatur for lunch at the Corner Pub and then the Dekalb Farmers Market. If you've never been, the DFM is really cool, filled with lots of produce, meat, seafood, beer and wine, and some things that are hard to find at other local stores. They also have some house made items that are quite good. Last time we went we bought a couple of their fresh salsas that were great. This time we bought some very flavorful shrimp and some housemade pasta and marinara sauce. The shrimp I boiled and served cold with a baked potato while last night we had the leftover shrimp on top of the pasta with some grated gruyere cheese. Both were very good and relatively cheap.
On the climbing side of things, I've become a gym rat. The heat has killed all motivation to climb outside so I've been training at Stone Summit, Atlanta's new gym. I'll give a full review in some later post but in short, it's a pretty amazing place.
On the safety side of things, a friend emailed this video to me and I wanted to share it with anyone who might be reading this. It's work friendly, comparing the properties of nylon and dyneema slings (remember, spectra is chemically the same as dyneema so the same applies to it).
The take home messages for me were:
1. Don't tie knots in spectra/dyneema runners
2. Be vigilant in controlling the slack in multipitch anchors.
3. Short falls can generate big forces!
Be careful out there!
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