Thinking of buying a new rope..

[Pierre]

Was just on the mec site and noticed that they have some climbing rope that is reduced.

The Mammut Doudess is reg $214 and reduced to $136.00
The Edelrid Live wire is reg $192 and reduced to $83.00

Anyone use ropes from Mammut or Edelrid? What are your recommendations? Is this a good deal?

Later

[martha]

It is a sweet deal. I've used both brands and though Mammut has pretty much fallen off my radar as of late, I wouldn't want to miss this sale.

giver.

if you search on here, you'll find lots of old threads about ropes too.

[vbpad]

i have a mammut duodess and i love it for the fact that it changes pattern half way through i've only had the one rope so i can't give you a good comparison though.

[martha]

Fred and I have basically ripped through two of them (mammut galaxy 10mm duodess) in the last 2 years. I don't find they last well.

Basically we go through a rope every 9-12 months..and that is with no toproping. only leading and seconding.

bi-pattern is great though. no question there. but other brands make ropes like this.

[Richard Eh!]

Bear in mind, Pierre, that the Mammut Duodess on sale is not the DRY rope. If you plan on climbing ice this will matter....
the Edelrid is a DRY however but I personally think the Mammut Flash Duodess Dry is a better rope.....and mine has almost a year and a half of ice climbing, toproping and trad, still almost looks and handles like new.

[justin]

I've got a live wire and the only complaint I have is that it twists REALLY bad when you rap, but other than that it's been a good rope. And for $83 canadian you can go wrong.

[martha]

however.....

once you use a rope with a dry coating on rock, the dry coating is pretty much negated as the friction of a rope going over the rock while top roping or falling wears this coating off very fast. The rope just going through an ATC will wear the coating off over a season as well. We have a single rope that we only use for ice climbing and a set of doubles that we use only for ice climbing. basically it gets a full season of ice, followed by a full season of rock and then it gets cut. Then we get another new one and repeat.

Mind you we climb pretty much every single sat/sun, plus various evenings through the week when we can, plus every holiday and we take our 2 week vacation each year to do nothing but climb... I would say that we easily put 75-100 full days on a rope.

If you don't plan on ice climbing this winter, then don't waste your money on a dry coating.

[Fred]

The Mammut Doudess is reg $214 and reduced to $136.00
The Edelrid Live wire is reg $192 and reduced to $83.00

the flash dry duodess 60m is nice. The flash galaxy duo is crappier than a CT rope

which Live wire? 60m 10.5 dry? that's a good one. do it!

[granite_grrl]

Woot! Just got myself a dry rope. Thanks Pierre!!

[mathieu]

and here I go and buy a new rope 2 weeks ago. Damn. But on the other hand, I bet that neither of those ropes on sale are 70m. Guess who got a flashy sport rope

[dcentral]

Wish I could justify the purchase. But I hardly get to climb outside anymore.

[Pierre]

Thanks for the advice...

Going to buy the Edelrid live wire..

At this point it doesn't really matter to me if it's a dry rope or not but maybe in the future I'll get into ice climbing. It's definitely on the list of things to do.

I figure the rope I'm currently using still has some life to it, but figure it doesn't hurt to have an extra. I'll just put this new rope away in the closest until needed.

[martha]

Don't forget to put it in a dark/dry place. and a rope has a shelf life of about 6-7 max years with no use at all, so if you don't break it out for 3 years, you still have a 3 year old rope.

[Mountain_Marc]

Man, why can't they put doubles on sale!

[The Mitt]

I just bought a live wire and there are only 30 left, 4 bought today.

Mitt

[Pierre]

Another bonus is free shipping form MEC for order of $70 until Dec 5th..

[granite_grrl]

Another bonus is free shipping form MEC for order of $70 until Dec 5th..

Did they have this on last night?? I'm was almost positive that I got charged $6.50 for shipper (still a killer deal reagardless).

[Pierre]

I think it just started today... I made my purchase this morning and their was an option for free shipping.

Maybe you can contact them my email and ask them if you qaulify for the free shipping

[Fred]

and their was an option for free shipping.

as in... you could choose if you wanted to pay shipping or choose to get it shipped free???