Can someone explain how to tie a false anchor when spiking and also what a belay system involves? Thanks

[Lou Brown]

Both in real world and in a spiking rescue assessment (cs38) I understand it’s beneficial to have a false anchor. I personally have always just done spiking jobs with just a lanyard, but if a it’s an easily tied anchor I will start to use, and also I will need to do it for my cs38. 
Anyone could explain what a belay system involves as well? Cheers 

[Bob The Dog]

It’s been a while since I did CS38, but the anchor for spike rescue was done using a rope lanyard.  Obvs you’re spiking up with a steel core flip line? And also carrying a rope lanyard? Mine has a tied eye at one end and a termination knot at the other, with a prussic attached. Ultimately, the rope lanyard would be chokered off around the stem, above the rescue location (once you’ve spiked above the casualty),leaving the eye to dangle down and would have 2 carabiners attached to the eye, each in opposite orientations. You can then pass your climbing line through and use that to lower yourself to the casualty to perform the rescue. That was the way for my course, but perhaps things have changed since? Hope that makes sense! 
and I seem to recall belaying done simply by way of adding a clove hitch into the system at the belayers end to add enough friction to aid the controlled descent. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Bob The Dog

[AHPP]

I like what you've done there.