Top Rope Solo Chest Harness

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.

Top rope solo chest harness.

Solo was successfully added to your cart. For extra efficiency use a chest harness or a loop of webbing improvised as a chest harness plus a carabiner and a thin cord to hold the micro traxion high. Russian ushba i believe not. Instead i m going to go over my solo toprope kit.

Anyone wishing to rope solo should already have an extensive knowledge of all the systems and. Black line solo. Camp industrial height safety 10 holt place 8053. To keep it in the ideal position for braking and separate it from the other device connect the top device to a chest harness a pair of slings draped over each shoulder so they cross in the middle or a single sling.

I have one 70 meter 9mm static rope and another 40 meter 10mm static rope. The top device is your primary self belay. This not only helps the feeding but also keeps it out of the way of your backup device. Rappel the pitch on a single strand placing a few pieces of directional gear if needed.

Connect both devices onto the rope and into your belay loop as shown above. But top rope often solo and have used different devices e g. Instead he sets up a fixed line from a solid anchor above the route attaches himself to the rope with two pcds e g petzl micro traxion or camp lift and then climbs up while the pcds move up the rope. Rope clamp for use with a chest harness.

So i won t go through the whole process. Fix your 9 2 10 4mm rope off a solid top anchor. Caldwell drapes a headlamp strap around his neck and clips this to his device. Using a static rope is most convenient but a dynamic will work as well.

Can be used on ropes ranging from 8 13mm in diameter. This blog is not meant as instructional text and is simply a description of how i rope solo. 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. Toprope soloing is when the climber is not tied into the rope directly.