SRT Line Question

[poetmk]

I'll be heading to Sierra Leone for a month on a water system installation project. I'll be in the rain forest - I'm wondering what the lightest good SRT line is. The trees are tall (200'-275') and branches starting in the 80'-100' area. I need light weight for baggage/weight concerns. I currently use Velocity and Tachyon for SRT.

thanks

mk

 

[moray]

Sterling HTP 10mm should be just the ticket. I think Snakebite is the same rope.

 

[NickfromWI]

Agreed.

Will you ONLY be doing SRT? The above rope doesn't work well if you switch to DRT while in the canopy. If I were doing that I would use Blaze or a similar line.

love
nick

 

[No_Bivy]

HTP fo so'

 

[poetmk]

thanks guys -

appreciate the help. i'll SRT to the first branches and then switch to DbRT to move around - so i plan on taking another line for that.

peace,

mk

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Check out Tachyon. It is light weight and coils very compactly. By weight and volume 200' of Tachyon is about equal to 150' of KMIII.

 

[tophopper]

He said he currently uses Tachyon.

Regarding stowage, I have a 200 ft HTP access line that fills 1/2 of my rope bag. In an identical bag I have 150 ft of Tachyon which fills it to about 3/4s. And certainly weighs more. How much more? I couldnt say.

Id go with HTP.

 

[treeclimber1]

hey tophopper whats this htp rope is it smaller then 11mm tachyon?

 

[tophopper]

HTP Static 3/8 x 200'/RED/48-Strand Static Kernmantle/ROPE/ Sterling

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Does HTP make a good DdRT rope?

My KMIII and TAchyon are both 7/16"/11mm nominal diameter.

If I bagged up my 3/8" KMIII I'm sure there would be a similar weight/volume difference.

 

[tophopper]

No Ddrt. Very static.