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I am looking for some advise on cleaning my rope I remember seeing a bluewater website with a bunch of rope care tips on it but can't seem to locate it again. If anyone knows this site or could g...
...his, since can't always pickup r.c group (life interferring with fun etc). I would like to do some rope soloing, and these are the techniques I have thought of:
If toprope, anchor rope at top...
...you are not confident with setting your gear up , then you should be very careful.
If you are truly rope soling up from the bottom of the crag, I would humbly suggest that if you have to ask, you ...
Maybe some specifics would help. Why would oxygen affect the nylon in a dynamic rope more than in a static rope?
AND, Do air tight storage bags solve this problem?
Ted Compton
Hi,
Does anyone here have a picture of a good, redundant top rope set up? I've looked and looked without any success.
Al
P.S. Don't worry, I plan on taking the course for top-rop...
Check out rei-outlet.com
They've got a 60M 10.5 PMI bicolor dry rope for $139. Normally $183. Great deal - I got one recently and am very happy with it so far.
A couple months ago I got a...
Let's say you are setting up a top-rope anchor using two different lengths of webbing, on two different trees or whatever. How do you adjust the lengths of webbing so that each piece of webbing i...
Anyone seen any sales on good ropes?
i use a petzl shunt for top rope self belaying: single dynamic 10.5 mm line anchored like the blazes, and for weight, coil the rope tail so it is just of the ground. Back-up is a separate dynamic rope...
...-30 feet of the cliff is a coarse low angle slab before any viable tree anchors are available so to top-rope the rope has to scratch its way over that slab. Not something that I want my rope to do too...
...start with 4.5 feet of cord tied in a double fishermans) around my leg loop, give it 3 wraps around the rope below the rappel device, and clip it into a locker also on my leg loop.
Having it below...
we had up to a #4 camalot and a 60m rope and managed to do it in 9 pitches with no simulclimbing, however that involved some decent run-outs and the rope stretched to the utmost length for most pitche...
Um......why not just use some static rope if you really think you need something with a breaking strength of OVER THREE TONS for a top rope anchor.........? It ties well, stays tied, and you can usual...
...eason you like Frost nuts is that they are easy to clean, then you also appear to advocate clipping the rope directly to the nut (i.e. no sling to reduce the rope wiggle on the nut).
Maybe with th...
Nope. With regard to impact forces, the length of the rope used is uninteresting. The only thing that matters is fall factor, namely ratio of fall height to rope arresting the fall. A longer fall with...
No Steve it was my GIRLFRIEND! I looked down and she had her brake hand off and was trying to feed rope into the slightly sticking SRC. Then I told her to hold me so i could stop and clear a rock on a...
... thingy that you use to clamp onto a steel cable while climbing in places like Italy (other places in Europe have these as well, I think). The idea is that the 'rope' is a fixed line attache...
...d climb. Let's say you nail a thin A5 pitch right off the ground. Now I repeat it but do so on top rope. I would have no right to state I did an A5 pitch because the top rope automatically reduce...
...mas break
the guide book sugest that 55m is ok for short routes but recommends bring two 60 or 70 m rope ....I have a 55m 10.5 which is long enough for my area.... easter Canada / US and I'm ...
Bring a rope to rap the North Ridge of Bryant. I tried following the little dotted lines in Beckey's guide UP the North Ridge of Bryant a while back. There wasn't an obvious easy way to solo...
...n't be afraid to give it a look.
Tower Tips: Make sure that you when you rap down, you put the rope over the middle of the pillers and NOT down either side...the Tower is a rope-eater if you ...
Thanks for the link Pat .Hold manufacturers and bolt choppers ,get a rope and hang em before they blow the access for all of us.
Funny, I was never scared until I started climbing and found the security a rope provides. Nice TR. Dylan
Barb & EJ Werner wrote:
...'ll check out the way to the east next time. The last time I went off the south side I did use one rope and then walked down less steep slabs to the trees. Some might want two ropes to make it al...
...s are there to descend the rock once you reach the top? I've always had the belay lower you on the rope, but I'm not entirely in favor of that method. Does anybody have any suggestions on ho...
...January. I was wondering, since its a lot of mild ice climbing, should me and my partner simul-solo? or rope up?...
Karl, I can't seem to get my cat interested in peeing either on my harness or on my rope. About all he does is shred my fleece and shit in my headphones. Got any tricks?
(Uh oh, does this mea...
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