I read a few of the other post and would like to clarify a few things, It only takes a few seconds to get up the pole once you learn to use the device, no longer than hitchhiking with the old strap. There is a second lanyard for passing phone, cable and other attachments on a joint use poles however we opted not to spend the extra money and we use our old strap as the second lanyard, Now that we are comfortable with them it may add one min to two min to the overall climb. I would recommend going to buckingham's web site and viewing there video it is a little better than the ones on youtube.
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