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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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Howdy Chris, I tried to buy a Fish Ledge for a casual ascent of the Trip....But was declined and had to pay more for a Metolius Ledge...It's a well built and sturdy system but is a little cumbersome to set up....I've let a friend borrow it for a round on the shield and it's holding up quite fine..No complaints.....But if you were hypo thermic on a wall ( been there on the Salathe), setting up the Metolius ledge could quickly become more then anyone could handle.
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clifff
Mountain climber
golden, rollin hills of California
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Jun 20, 2016 - 07:11am PT
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Sometimes a storm will blast water straight up the face. How well do these flys perform in those conditions?
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jun 20, 2016 - 10:20pm PT
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FISH is the only one in the portaledge game that is using high-strength cro-moly steel tubing instead of aluminum.
Aluminum is easily dented and damaged. I used a Metolius that got bounced around a bit in a storm, and one of the aluminum tubes wound up with a sizeable dent that threatened to collapse completely and render the ledge unusable. I had to wrap the injury with sliced-open OE 800 cans, and duct-tape them as splints.
The cro-moly steel tubing that Russ the FISH uses is like spring steel, and nearly impossible to damage. He uses a REALLY thin walled tube (about 0.019", as I recall) so his ledges aren't much (or any) heavier than aluminum-framed junk.
If you flag an aluminum portaledge above your pig, you run the risk of destroying it if it hangs up on a little roof, and you keep pulling on the haul line with all your strength. By contrast, I have seen a flagged FISH ledge bend and distort and twist into a pretzel, then pop loose of the roof and spring back into perfect shape, completely undamaged.
Given the choice, I would take a FISH double over my own homemade double portaledge that has carbon fiber tubes and is lighter, but more fragile.
I don't see how a legitimate portaledge review could omit the FISH.
Dood's the Mack.
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Jun 20, 2016 - 10:44pm PT
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I used a Metolius that got bounced around a bit in a storm, and one of the aluminum tubes wound up with a sizeable dent that threatened to collapse completely and render the ledge unusable. I had to wrap the injury with sliced-open OE 800 cans, and duct-tape them as splints.
yeah right! you were prolly trying to make a pipe out of one of the tubes and overly pinched it. Saying you used oe cans to fix the repair totally discounts your whole story. Everyone knows you must have atleast have the strength of an natty-ice can for such a fix.
edit; dude is the mack tho
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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Jun 20, 2016 - 10:49pm PT
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The one on the left from housekeeping camp if memory serves ...
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Jun 21, 2016 - 12:23am PT
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You could have Ivo do one on Walmart vs. Target vs. K-Mart lawn recliners.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jun 21, 2016 - 04:14pm PT
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Yeah, Billy Westbay's Navy submarine cot probably came from Housekeeping Camp. They were available at military surplus stores, but the Curry Company generously didn't didn't bolt those things down very well.
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