Many climbers are hard on climbing ropes, but they do not try to be it is just the way it turns out, especially with all the climbing that they do in different areas.



You may clean your ropes and use a rope bag to keep them out of the dirt and rocks, but some times it is hard to keep them dry, but still your ropes end up becoming pretty worn out. When a climber looks down at their blackened palms, then you know that your ropes are telling you that they need to be washed. Many climbers can not figure out what it is that they do that is so hard on them, but it does put them in a great position to search for new ropes to purchase.

There are a lot of ropes on the market these days and depending on what kind of climbing you are going to be doing that is the key to choosing the correct rope. The New England Ropes G-50 10.5mm 50 meter are the maxim climbing rope, which are made in New England, who keeps the prices of their ropes down by offering the rope with limited options. The G-50 has a very supple feel to it and feeds through the belay device very well and there are no frills to this rope.

This rope can be used to top-rope, rappel, and to lead sport and trad pitches. This rope is ideally suited for beginning climbers. Beginners are going to be doing mostly top-roping, rappelling, working a route, and this rope would suit all of those needs. New England also offers the G-50 in a 60 meter configuration that will be called the G-60.

Another great rope on the market today is the Blue Water Lightning Pro 60 meters Double Dry, so when it comes to ropes thin is in, and the Blue Water Lightning Pro is one of the thinnest ropes on the market. The Lightning Pro lives up to its name as well being the lightest single rope on the market at 9.6 mm and weighing in at less than fifty-eight grams per meter. The Lightning Pro is a great rope and is initially meant for alpine climbing at the extremes, it is also being used by top sport climbers for hard red points.

Clipping the quick draws on a sport route was very smooth and the Double Dry treatment and low profile lets it feed through the biners with little resistance, not to mention keeping the rope from getting soaked. This rope handles really well while climbing and while belaying. The Lightning Pro is offered in two colors, as well as a bi-color where the rope changes weave patterns at the midpoint, and in 50, 60, 70 meter configurations.

Another rope is the Sterling 10.2 mm 60 meter Dry Rope, which is a nice compromise of strength and weight. The Sterling 10.2 mm rope is a good all-around climbing rope and this rope is at home on sport routes, trad routes, ice climbing, top-roping, basically whatever you can throw at it. This rope was nice to climb with and handled well in the protection and the belay devices. The better braid technology that this rope has gives it a tight weave to the sheath, which makes the rope feel very secure and makes it resistance to wear. The DryCore treatment is applied to every fiber to control the absorption of water, but this rope has a little bit of a tendency to twist, which comes in 50, 55, 60, and 70 meter lengths as well as custom lengths.