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Do you need a haul loop?

Jonah Husak wrote:

Ideally yes! A haul loop would be rad

What will you haul?

Can you better define what you want and how you will use it trad climbing? It will help people give a better recommendation. 

"Sport-like" as in lower profile? ie less wide and less thick?

Haul loop - do you want just a little clip or a full rear gear loop to rack stuff on? 

I was a huge fan of my ozone harness, I did sew an extra gear loop on the back though. I would look at the edelrid ace, bd harnesses are cut waaaaay too high you just end up getting used to a harness in your ribs edelrid harnesses are instantly more comfy in a hang just because of how they are cut.

I say mess around with trad first. Figure out what you don't like about your sport ozone while trad climbing. Then come back & figure out what harness fits the bill better.

Otherwhise you're shooting from the hip, and there's a decent chance that what you think you want/don't want for your trad harness isn't actually what you'll want/don't want after some time trading.

Franck Veewrote:

I say mess around with trad first. Figure out what you don't like about your sport ozone while trad climbing. Then come back & figure out what harness fits the bill better.

At 5 years old for the ozone it's probably ready to be retired, mine got retired at 6 and partners were starting to make comments on it (still structurally sound).

The ozone is perfectly fine trad harness just really needs that extra loop for when climbing with a double rack.

The Edelrid Ace is the best harness I've used for everything. It's lighter and (to me) comfier than any BD offering. Plenty of place to clip stuff on for any route I've done since I switched to it 3 years ago.

that guy named sebwrote:

At 5 years old for the ozone it's probably ready to be retired, mine got retired at 6 and partners were starting to make comments on it (still structurally sound).

The ozone is perfectly fine trad harness just really needs that extra loop for when climbing with a double rack.

I mean sure, but that's kind of a different question, not something he really mentioned being an issue in his question.

And doesn't really change the fact that it makes littles sense to me to gear up for another style of climbing you'r not familiar with. Chances you just won't really know what you want/need. If he really needs an harness now, and likes the Ozone, I'd just buy another ozone for the momeent.

Any reason you're not looking at one of these? 

https://www.blackdiamondequipment.com/en_US/product/zone-harness-mens/