Understand Essential Rock Climbing Equipment

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Hi, I'm Bill with Zoar Outdoor here on behalf of expertvillage.com. Today we're at Chapel Ledges in Ashfield, Massachusetts, Trustees of Reservation Property and in this series I'm going to be talking about rock climbing gear. What I have here in front of me is a wide assortment of things that you might use if you were going climbing. We'll talk about each of them individually after, but for now let's give you a general sense. Over here we've got an assortment of climbing shoes, couple of climbing harnesses, helmet, chalk bag, a climbing rope and then some other ropes and webbing, this sort of material is called webbing that you might use for setting up anchors and other pieces. Over here is some technical equipment, some belay devices, there's carabiners, other pieces that would be used for attaching the equipment to the rock and an assortment of backup other things. A backpack to carry it all in, a guidebook is handy to know what you're about to be doing and water is good to have a long and I always like to have a least a few band-aids in a bag so those little scrapes and things and bruises can be taken care of without too much trouble at the cliff. So all this is a lot of equipment, you don't need it all to get started, but I wanted to make sure you knew what it was and we'll talk about what you do need to get started.

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