Which Knee Ascender

[Jamie Jones]

I am currently looking at getting a Knee Ascender... The Petzl one seems rather expensive and the only other one that seems to be about is the Stein Knee Ascender? 

What Knee Ascenders are people using and is the Stein one any good?

[carlos]

7 hours ago, Jamie Jones said:

I am currently looking at getting a Knee Ascender... The Petzl one seems rather expensive and the only other one that seems to be about is the Stein Knee Ascender? 

What Knee Ascenders are people using and is the Stein one any good?

i made up my own one that is pretty much the same as the stein one and it works great for longer assents .

you will have to get a foot loop too, and you could swap those karribiners for the really little DMM xsre ones, super compact.

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[All About Trees]

I've made my own up too which works really well. I prefer the Stein version type thing over the HAAS because it all ticks away nearly into a chalk bag on the back of my harness whereas the HAAS is pretty rigid and dangles about a lot when you're not using it. The HAAS is also ridiculous money.

Get yourself a Petzl Croll, 2 DMM XSRE biners, some 4 or 5mm bungee cord and something to use as a foot loop. I use 4mm hollow braid dyneema that I've spliced an eye on one end and an adjustable loop on the other. Total cost is about £50.