Baker wrote:
Am I doing something wrong? I've noticed when I climb DRT on my New England Safety Blue, the nearer I get to the anchor limb, the up and down legs seem to want to cross and twist about one full rotation every 30 feet or so. Sometimes I even get my knot hand pinched between them. Again, am I doing something wrong, or is this normal?

Ron reported this problem as well on the TCC (Tree Climbers Coalition) message board as well. It confuses me because I think you need to rotate your body 360 in order to put a full twist in the legs of a DRT system, right? If you look up and see that you've put twist into the system you can always rotate your body enough in the opposite direction (if you have contact with a the trunk or a limb) to remove the twist. If you're hanging free away from the tree the twist naturally resolves itself. You can also put a swivel into the system but that introduces some minor negative effects while solving the overall twist problem. Nothing's perfect.
-moss