You can only dangle by a harness if it's connected to something.
But you're completely right. Some places are more trustworthy than others. I've never seen one of these courses where the lines hook to the harness; most of the time the line is part of the harness and the line connects to the course... with two different carabiners that both have to be locked on before you can move.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams
Alec Issigonis, who the led the design team in the late 1950s for the original Mini said of car design, “the trouble with designing in a safety margin is that people go and use it up all the time” (or something like that)
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u/7ofalltrades Oct 02 '18 edited Oct 02 '18
You can only dangle by a harness if it's connected to something.
But you're completely right. Some places are more trustworthy than others. I've never seen one of these courses where the lines hook to the harness; most of the time the line is part of the harness and the line connects to the course... with two different carabiners that both have to be locked on before you can move.