Have been looking for a descender to use in conjunction with my friction knot, just to take some heat off. So far:
Fig 8 - works great, easy to install, really twists the rope
Gri-Gri - works good, little bit bulky for me
Petzl Stop - tedious to set up, big & bulky
ATC, etc - not enough...
Visited the beautiful Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle today. Just a few blocks away from the south entrance (on 50th St) I saw THIS, and just had to take a pix. Does this qualify as topping??
Brand new to the Buzz.
Here's a fun site I happened to land on:
http://www.zazzle.com/tree+gifts?cg=103113243848843719
There's a T-shirt for nearly every political persuasion related to trees. It can be entertaining, if nothing else. WARNING, it takes an hour or two just to look at all 57...