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@JohnAltringham An 18” rappel rack. Rappel racks were made for long rope with the deep pits of TAG & Mexico in mind. This is an excellent question, and yes rope weight and device usage is very important! I will talk about it more when I make today’s post as the history of single rope technique is interesting, as is how various devices were developed. I live where most of it started, and have been caving long enough that Ive gotten to meet and speak with the inventors…so I have lots to say on this topic! Thanks for the post ideas :)
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 @sunguramy @JohnAltringham I've never done this sort of thing, so I'm very curious about the re-ascent, both from a process and experience perspective. @mhoye @sunguramy Process - you have two toothed 'clamps' that slide up the rope freely but bite into woven sheath of rope when pulled down. One attaches to your chest, the other you control with your hand(s), with your foot/feet in a loop hanging from it. Push hand clamp up, stand up in loop, chest clamp slides up freely - take weight on chest clamp, slide hand up. Repeat, repeat, repeat... |
@sunguramy I tried a rack, once, but never owned one - with abseils <100m the same Petzl descender worked for all. As with rock climbing, SRT had a parallel evolution here in Europe, with both similar and novel solutions.