The time has finally come

[Mark Bolam]

Rope choice makes a huge difference.

You like Cougars anyway....

[Steve Bullman]

I do! I might have a go with my cougar blue. I retired it a few weeks ago as I nicked it about 15ft from the spliced end, but it will do for srt on smaller trees I guess.

[Joe Newton]

Yeah I know what you mean about the bounce. Once you have a couple of redirects in it's a bit unnerving at first.

 

Popping back up after break is easily the biggest advantage.

 

A 70' ascent after 3 fags, a coffee and a burger is enjoyable!

[T14EES T14UNK]

I find nowadays that I can't see any benefits of ddrt. I try it occasionally for a small thing that I can't be bothered to set up a retrievable SRT and then hate it immediately and just clip my Krab onto the rope and pull it up and tight and carry on SRT. I'd rather go back up to get my rope than carry on DDRT. It's then worth doing a descent DDRT just so it's quick to retrieve.

 

I think you'll get to grips with it soon. It suddenly clicks, especially if you have a go every day. You'll know when it clicks. And it'll get even better after that as you perfect and refine your style. Definitely no going back to it as a full time system. It wouldn't make sense to me..

[D Mc]

Yeah I know what you mean about the bounce. Once you have a couple of redirects in it's a bit unnerving at first......

 

This is actually something to be very careful of. Bounce or movement that you can tell is coming from the canopy and not your rope should trigger warnings. When you feel it take the time to study your rope and load angles. It almost always means something is loaded in shear not compression. It is often necessary to set a static redirect instead of a dynamic to counter shear.

[Joe Newton]

This is actually something to be very careful of. Bounce or movement that you can tell is coming from the canopy and not your rope should trigger warnings. When you feel it take the time to study your rope and load angles. It almost always means something is loaded in shear not compression. It is often necessary to set a static redirect instead of a dynamic to counter shear.

 

 

A lot of the time when you're anchored into old re growth or a skinny anchor you have to accept that lateral movement will happen. I get your point but realistically it's not always viable to load anchors without lateral tension. That's where experience and gut instinct often come into it.

 

As you also mentioned static and dynamic, or even tensioned redirects can be used depending on the situation.

[Steve Bullman]

This is actually something to be very careful of. Bounce or movement that you can tell is coming from the canopy and not your rope should trigger warnings. When you feel it take the time to study your rope and load angles. It almost always means something is loaded in shear not compression. It is often necessary to set a static redirect instead of a dynamic to counter shear.

 

 

In the situation I described earlier I wouldn't have trusted a static redirect

[D Mc]

....As you also mentioned static and dynamic, or even tensioned redirects can be used depending on the situation.

 

Yes! When climbing SRWP do not overlook the fact that your climbing line can not only support you, it can also support the limb or top point you are hanging from.

[Steve Bullman]

Yes! When climbing SRWP do not overlook the fact that your climbing line can not only support you, it can also support the limb or top point you are hanging from.

 

Don't quite follow you there

[Ian Flatters]

Don't quite follow you there

 

 

I think he's saying don't tie into something too small.