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Bill Main, Lamar English, Greg Flanagan and many of the folks who pioneered cave exploration and who designed and built the first iterations of gear we take for granted now are very much "still around." But should you be lucky enough to bump into one of them, say at a dive site, you may be surprised by their appraisal of your "HOG' configuration... Bill Main especially. The term minimalist is what springs to mind! His is truly a rock and railroad spike philosophy.