I did my first bolted route yesterday. Multipitch, about 80m in all. The set up at the top (and the top of other pitches) was like this; 2 bolts with 2 large rings through each. A chain hanging between these 2 rings. 2 snap gate krabs in situ attached to the rings.
We decided to both ab off for practice, but I wasnt 100% sure what to actually ab off. I'm sure just one of the rings would have been fine, but the sensible, trad climber in me looks for some redundancy. The 2 rings were fairly far apart, so threading the rope through 2 chain links provided some redundancy in the system and still allow the rope to run freely when retrieving it.
Was this right, am I being too cautious?
Also, when setting up belay stations with the same set up, should I just be cows tailing into one bolt, or setting up a more usual trad belay in the usual way?
(ps - The Galliands BTW)
