"Caveat" wrote in message
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"Toller" wrote:

Sadly, I am rather afraid of heights. Last year I had to have a friend go
up on my roof and fix a piece of trim cause I couldn't; very embarressing.
Is there any reason I couldn't wear a climbing harness and loop a rope
over
the chain? Safely tied in I become very bold again.

The problem with this idea is that there are vertical posts along the
chained sections they would require unclips and re-clips, plus
sections with no chains. For most people, one's arms and handgrips can
provide all the tie-in that is really required to do this route. If
you really can't negotiate an exposed Class 3 section without being
roped-up, don't do this route.

A unclip and re-clip would only take a few seconds.
I recently free climbed a 5.2 so I could set a toprope anchor. I was quite
ill by the time I got to the top, despite not having fallen on anything
under 5.8 in years. It is all in the mind.

And BTW you have no idea just how embarrassing it would be to do this
non-technical route with technical climbing gear, while dozens of kids
and geezers scamper around you -- pointing at you and snickering.

Oh yes I do! As I crawled up the pyramid at Uxmal, little kids played tag
on it.
I really don't mind. (though my son might not want to be near me...)