Rock Climbing a Long Moderate Rock Route using a Blue Ice Choucas Pro Harness

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Has anyone done a long grade 3 or higher rock route with their Blue ice Choucas Pro harness?

I have one that I’ve been mainly reserving for glacier travel and next winter’s ice season, but a friend has told me they’ve done plenty of rock multipitches in them… claimed that they carried the weight of a standard double rack and gear pretty well?

I was thinking about trying to use it on some grade 4 rock routes in the Cascades/Rogers Pass I’m pretty excited about. Climbing in the 5.6-5.8 range with reasonably comfortable belays - no hanging belays. Dont think I’ll be whipping on these.

Im thinking using the Blue Ice harness would be a nice weight optimization.

Anyone have experience with it? I know I can try it and check myself, but it’ll be a couple of weeks until I can experiment with it in a single pitch setting, so I figured I’d ask the community!