Originally posted by Ponderosa
leaving a delta on each rope and not having to worry about having one on each saddle.

I must have been a little unclear; that's not quite what I meant. I meant that you would just have the figure 8 loop waiting for a climber to walk up to it and attach their delta onto it. One big problem with leaving something on the rope is that you don't have as much control over who is going "on rope". If they have to go to you to get a biner or to get tied in, you can know who is about to start climbing. Also, if you leave a biner or a delta on the loop, someone could easily take it (we lost several biners last year) or it could fall off the rope onto the ground and get broken or lost.

Attaching a ring through the bight made by the figure-8 knot might be a compromise to the situation of retaining equipment and satisfying concerns about the rope contacting the screw-gate of the delta.

Good idea, Jim.

Harv