To say or not to say...

"Next time, don't clip the daisy chain into the lower piece when trying to clean your pro mid route. No sense breaking your back if you fall." Penny Lane is a trade route and sees a lot of traffic and probably some it shouldn't. So what do you do when you see someone climbing do something really stupid? Like risking a factor two fall on a daisy chain? Climbing recently published an article on just this topic; I figure it's better to say something than just observe. Maybe, something is learned or at least you can walk away with a clear conscience.

A bit of perspective on what Kevin McLane describes as "The classic Smoke Bluff crack"; an unknown climber cruising the 35 meter Penny Lane 5.9, Smoke Bluffs, Squamish.

1/320s, f/8.0, ISO 100, 24 mm © 2010 Shawn Boye

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