Srt descent issue Michoacan

[moss]

Nice. Don't have double bridge like Kevin's video do you?

I run a double bridge, better than sliced bread or even thick rye toast! At the very least it’s great when you’re in an awkward position and don’t want to fumble around trying to find a Bridgeport s carabiner to clip into. The free bridge is easy to find and hook up.

Here’s some video rescuing a cat out of a small Bradford pear, basically a free climb with SRS hitch only lanyard and main rope, good illustration of how I use a lanyard SRS. I will now have to fend off attacks about cinching a carabiner ;-)

-AJ

 

[Aragorn]

That, and, rescuing a cat!
Thanks for the video. Every little bit helps.

 

[WaitakKauri]

Care to share some photos of this sick setup? I’ve got tons of extra bike tubes

Lots of stuff in this thread now, it's good.

This is nothing fancy, just functional. I like that I can tighten this up. I'd like to try a Swing chestie or one of the fancy ones me I'll sew up a fancy one before spending. I like a normal sized biner with non-wire gate as this gets pulled on when I have it tight for comps. The blue tape was just on the bike tube for a comp, again to just tighten everything up. You can play with how much bike tube for how much stretch you want. That is a could of layers of mtn bike tube folded into itself. Badly tied bull hitch on the biner, or just a petzl webbing trap.



Anyway, it's a long sunny warm spring weekend here, I've stuffed my legs with more than 8 hours cycling the last two days so I'm off to climb a Sequoia now. I'm going to channel some inner @moss conifer technique and have some chill out tree time.

Edit: fixed auto correct

 

[Aragorn]

Lots of stuff in this thread now, it's good.

This is nothing fancy, just functional. I like that I can tighten this up. I'd like to try a Seeing chestie or one of the fancy ones me I'll sew up a fancy one before spending. I like a normal sized biner with non-wire gate as this gets pulled on when I have it tight for comps. The blue tape was just on the bike tube for a comp, again to just tighten everything up. You can play with how much bike tube for how much stretch you want. That is a could of layers of mtn bike tube folded into itself. Badly tied bull hitch on the biner, or just a petzl webbing trap.

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Anyway, it's a long sunny warm spring weekend here, I've stuffed my legs with more than 8 hours cycling the last two days so I'm off to climb a Sequoia now. I'm going to channel some inner @moss conifer technique and have some chill out tree time.

Is that an over the shoulder lanyard or around the chest?

 

[Aragorn]

I run a double bridge, better than sliced bread or even thick rye toast! At the very least it’s great when you’re in an awkward position and don’t want to fumble around trying to find a Bridgeport s carabiner to clip into. The free bridge is easy to find and hook up.

Here’s some video rescuing a cat out of a small Bradford pear, basically a free climb with SRS hitch only lanyard and main rope, good illustration of how I use a lanyard SRS. I will now have to fend off attacks about cinching a carabiner ;-)

-AJ

Moss - you're on Poison Ivy in the video aren't you? Pre Vortex I guess.
Also, while you fell on your sword for cross loading the biner, didn't you advance that tip without a lanyard at least once? While the video doesn't give you away, a lanyard would have given you two free hands which you would have used for that advance. Fess up? Lol. Bagging the kitty was hilarious!

 

[WaitakKauri]

Is that an over the shoulder lanyard or around the chest?

Around the chest

 

[Aragorn]

Is the biner passed through the loop end of the webbing and down to a Hitch Climber, girthing your chest, or does it stay snapped like the picture, maybe with a few twists imparted, then connected to a HC?

 

[WaitakKauri]

Is the biner passed through the loop end of the webbing and down to a Hitch Climber, girthing your chest, or does it stay snapped like the picture, maybe with a few twists imparted, then connected to a HC?

Pic here from another thread. You'll have to look closely as I'm also wearing a second full body harness. http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/threads/speed-ascent-setups.38933/post-578645

I clip into my climbing system via a small 3mm accessory cord loop around my biner. This loop is installed through the lower eye of my tether so it stays where I want it. Makes for good tending.

I just lengthened the chest harness for a bit more comfort. Much nicer than super tight.

 

[Aragorn]

Moss - you're on Poison Ivy in the video aren't you? Pre Vortex I guess.
Also, while you fell on your sword for cross loading the biner, didn't you advance that tip without a lanyard at least once? While the video doesn't give you away, a lanyard would have given you two free hands which you would have used for that advance. Fess up? Lol. Bagging the kitty was hilarious!

I said "Vortex" above but probably should have said Velocity. Isn't that what you're on now?

 

[moss]

I said "Vortex" above but probably should have said Velocity. Isn't that what you're on now?

My short lanyard is 11mm Velocity. The other rope is a 90’ length of Poison Ivy. The Bradford pear tree in the video is small and bushy, it’s basically a free climb with lanyard assist.
-AJ

 

[Aragorn]

My short lanyard is 11mm Velocity. The other rope is a 90’ length of Poison Ivy. The Bradford pear tree in the video is small and bushy, it’s basically a free climb with lanyard assist.
-AJ

My short lanyard is 11mm Velocity. The other rope is a 90’ length of Poison Ivy. The Bradford pear tree in the video is small and bushy, it’s basically a free climb with lanyard assist.
-AJ

I see. I gave those up around age 35.

 

[moss]

I see. I gave those up around age 35.

I try to get a rec free climb in now and then. Yesterday I raced a roughly 10 year-old girl up a field grown sugar maple, I kept up but girls have always been better free climbers ;-) But seriously... good work climbers always stay tied in one way or the other but they are utilizing free climbing technique to make moves in the tree, always taking taking slack out but taking advantage of hand and footholds that the tree offers to move fluidly. Free climbing is more physically challenging than pure rope climbing, great exercise and stretching.
-AJ

 

[Aragorn]

I try to get a rec free climb in now and then. Yesterday I raced a roughly 10 year-old girl up a field grown sugar maple, I kept up but girls have always been better free climbers ;-) But seriously... good work climbers always stay tied in one way or the other but they are utilizing free climbing technique to make moves in the tree, always taking taking slack out but taking advantage of hand and footholds that the tree offers to move fluidly. Free climbing is more physically challenging than pure rope climbing, great exercise and stretching.
-AJ

Yea, there was a time where I could stand atop anything I could get a one hand grab on. Those days are long gone.

 

[Aragorn]

Pic here from another thread. You'll have to look closely as I'm also wearing a second full body harness. http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/threads/speed-ascent-setups.38933/post-578645

I clip into my climbing system via a small 3mm accessory cord loop around my biner. This loop is installed through the lower eye of my tether so it stays where I want it. Makes for good tending.

I just lengthened the chest harness for a bit more comfort. Much nicer than super tight.

You've got a lot going on there. I couldn't really tell from the picture. I would have guessed that was rigged over the shoulder.