andrewmcleod
Well-known member
I have a fairly long short cowstail, and I have concluded that what matters is not the length of your short, or the length of your long, but that the long is definitively longer than the short i.e. it is the distance between them that is critical...this happened to me once on a solo trip in Jean Pot. It was funny at first, then less so, and very awkward to empty the sack in order to extract myself
as above 're cows tail lengths......folk with long short cows tail s take ages on hanging re-belay s, or get hung up. Unless they can do one arm pull ups.....and it is a common error.
That said, a short short will indeed make passing rebelays etc. easier even if it makes traverses sometimes trickier.