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WIDE CRACK PROTECTION - NUTS & HEXES | | |
|  Photo: North-West Arete (MVS), Gimmer Crag, The Lake District, England. |
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Wide crack protection means either carrying large nuts (chocks) or camming devices, or more likely both. Whilst cams have many advantages over nuts, nuts do in fact have some advantages over cams: they are lighter and considerably cheaper, they don't walk into cracks, and they will protect a crack that gets wider inside where a cam will be next to useless.
For most climbers protecting wide cracks without using camming devices meant until recently carrying a rack of Hexcentrics, or "Hexes", the offset chocks designed many years ago by Yvonne Chouinard. These are now only available on wire, and Wild Country Rockcentrics seem to have become the large nut of choice. | |
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Cords for Hexes: | | |
For rethreading Hexes and other nuts, we suggest that 1.25m of cord will allow for a reasonably long loop and a Double Fisherman's Knot with a good "tail". Cord comes in the diameters listed below and is sold per 1.25 metre, especially for Hexes etc. It is cut with a "hot-knife" that seals it as well. If you need to cut it again then you will need to find a friendly shop that has a hot-knife to do it for you. If you want other lengths and diameters suitable for other uses, please click for our Ropes section. If you want specific lengths and diameters suitable for prussik loops, please click for our Descent section. | |
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