Top Rope Solo Devices

Rappel the pitch on a single strand placing a few pieces of directional gear if needed.

Top rope solo devices.

And you must be backed up never depend on a single device. Now fix your back up rope to the anchor and drop it down. Fix your 9 2 10 4mm rope off a solid top anchor. In climbing or mountaineering the rope team offers the highest level of safety.

Connect both devices onto the rope and into your belay loop as shown above. For the top device i use a rescucender. After using every solo toprope device on the market i have settled on two devices that make solo toproping more safe and more convenient. Solo top rope self belay advice some progress capture pulleys and ascenders can be rigged to travel along a fixed line providing a self belay for a solo top rope climbing experience.

Hey your post inspired me a lot and today i climbed for the first time on top rope solo. It s also easy to. And by the way. I love this device for two reasons.

In keeping with the improvised character of self rescue we will assume that you don t have a rope solo device with you. Devices exist which are specifically designed for rope soloing such as the silent partner. Others climb with two different devices clipped into two separate ropes. Petzl has not developed a device for this activity but certain ascenders may be used for it by experts.

Solo top roping is a great way to get a lot of laps in and have a positive training day when you can t find a partner or are just looking for some solitude. Solo toproping techniques vary mainly in their back up methods. Anyone wishing to rope solo should already have an extensive knowledge of all the systems and. Assisted braking belay devices such as the grigri work to some extent but are fairly unreliable for rope soloing and must be backed up with the technique described here anyway.

Using a static rope is most convenient but a dynamic will work as well. This blog is not meant as instructional text and is simply a description of how i rope solo. Some climbers hang a second rope alongside the first and clip into bights pre tied in the backup rope in case the primary rope or belay device fails. Attach your solo belay device to the rope weight the rope end with a light pack or extra gear to help it feed and clip two locking carabiners through your belay loop.

Next rappel your main line to the ground. First it s nice that the rope clamp has smooth grooves like a gri gri and not sharp teeth like a traxion. Rope soloing is highly dangerous and demands a great deal of experience and good judgment and in many ways is more dangerous than free soloing due to an increased reliance on systems.