Registered: 12/06/07
Posts: 418
Loc: St. Petersburg, Florida
hikermor,
I think the ring was added to make clipping in faster and easier (and because the riggers could avoid other duties when they HAD to make a belt for one of the instructors - the ring added at least an hour to construction ;-))).
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