Storing your climbing rope

[Henacretrees]

Hi guys, Sorry if this has been asked a million times before. Interested to know how you store your climbing rope. Have worked with 3 climbers over the years - one coiled and hung his rope, the other had a rope bag and the other just a builders bucket. Can see the pros and cons of all 3, but wondered what others preferred. Cheers.

[Steve Bullman]

Rope bags for me every time. Prefer the ones with backpack straps on also

[Henacretrees]

I was always taught to coil by my first boss, but started using a rope bag recently and it's so much easier and neater. A backpack would be even better.

[Steve Bullman]

I started off coiling as well but a bag makes more sense. If you're only climbing a 20ft tree you just feed whatever rope you used back in. If you're coiling you have to do the whole rope from scratch

[TIMON]

Stuffed into a bag every time. I did learn to coil a rope but the bag makes much more sense.

[Jake Andrews]

In a bag for me too for the long rope. Small 20m rope gets coiled and put in the climbing bag.

 

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[Joe Newton]

All my climbing kit fits on to one bag with backpack straps. Rope, silky, harness, lanyard (always on harness), small rigging pulleys, pulleysaver and various old hitch cord and baccy wrappers at the bottom.

[monkeyallan]

Rope bag. Silver bull for me. Bombproof.

[jrose]

Ex army kit bag holds my rope, lanyard, harness and other bits and bobs with room to spare. Only problem is that its NATO green, so if you cover it in brash you have to do a bit of searching to find it again!

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

Flaked into a rope bag unless it is wet and then its coiled or daisy-chained and hung up to dry.