Climbed a nice beech yesterday and traversed to a pine about 60' away, went out on a main branch about halfway on the beech to get in range to set my line to get over to the pine.
Ascended SRT Unicender and kept my SRT line for the departure half of the traverse then DdRT to the pine.
Cimb or american beech and traverse to a pine 60' away.
I made a couple of mistakes. When I got out on the limb with the SRT line and tail for retrieval, I realized I did not leave enough tail to recover the line when I got to the pine. I had attached the canopy anchor with a butterfly and screw link so I had to pull the screw link out and adjust the length. I had one natural crotch to help with the angle getting out on the limb.
Second issue, when I got to the pine I had to work real hard to get my line back pulling it thru the natural crotch redirect and dealing with the screw link.
I think next time I will switch that screw link over to a ringed friction saver and recover that with a stopper knot.
Question.
Has anyone made ringed friction savers to use for redirects? Seems they would be much lighter and easy to carry a couple if you made them with webbing tied with a beer knot and a biner on one end and a delta link or similar on the other to allow you to attach it mid-line and recover with a stopper knot. Or would it get stuck too?
I have read the VTIO intro to redirects, most threads here about redirects and watched JB Holdway's video. Seems like the most useful method for a traverse like this would be the 2 ring friction saver and something like it modified so that it can be attached mid-line.
