Footlocking

[Bigtime_aero]

Question for all the experienced climbers - could you use a small prussic cord and your lanyard as a footlocking cord alternative? the lanyard makes it adjustable. I use a rock harness without lanyard loops on the side so my lanyard is attatched to my belay loop. would you put your life on that?

 

[SeanRuel]

How would you secure to switch over to positioning once you've ascended? I'd personally go with a prussic out of tenex or ice tail instead, not bulky and pretty cheap. each added connection point adds a point of possible failure IMO

 

[rope-a-dope]

No problems as an access/ascent system. Lanyard needs a stopper obviously. And you should have something that is fairly easy and quick to deploy mid air for rapid descent.
Sean is thinking through a whole process and for good reason. You top out your FL then need free gear to secure a switch over to something else.

 

[TCtreeswinger]

Pull a tail up and tie a Blake's. 12 strand is cheap enough just make a dedicated FL loop

 

[Bigtime_aero]

How would you secure to switch over to positioning once you've ascended? I'd personally go with a prussic out of tenex or ice tail instead, not bulky and pretty cheap. each added connection point adds a point of possible failure IMO

it's a double ended lanyard. id tie in with the other end or attatch my gri gri to a strand. I almost always use a alpine butterfly as a canopy anchor.

 

[Bigtime_aero]

Thanks everybody

 

[moss]

I would substitute the rope snap for a locking carabiner. Rope snap has fairly specific use for implementing a lanyard wrap on the trunk for climbing on spikes. Carabiner can do the same and opens up many other modes for your short lanyard.
-AJ

 

[moss]

I'd also add another 1.5" at least to all of the double overhand noose knots you're using. Once you load that lanyard up in real-world use the current short tails will be sucked into the double overhand part of the knot. No matter how hard you set them they compress further in use.
-AJ

 

[dmonn]

I'd also add another 1.5" at least to all of the double overhand noose knots you're using. Once you load that lanyard up in real-world use the current short tails will be sucked into the double overhand part of the knot. No matter how hard you set them they compress further in use.
-AJ

For sure!

 

[Phil]

or attatch my gri gri to a strand.

You better be damned sure you get the correct strand. If you need to bail mid ascent, it might be a panic scenario...bees or hornets or whatever. You might think you got it right...