Jayouz

What should we have been climbing on?

Apparently the hire kits were mixed up so on the morning of the last day of training the guy put it all back which then switched me to a left food ascender which I didn't like, asked if there was any chance of another right foot ascender and was told I would probably get told to get used to it so picked up a right ascender when I bought my harness. *EDIT* Not buying ropes yet is just trying to figure out what ropes to buy and what lengths to buy, also what setup to use, on the course we just used prusiks loops but tempted to go for a hitchclimber setup as there are more options for the friction hitch, I sometimes found with the prusiks that 2 wraps wouldn't hold my weight but 3 wraps was too much.

Oh believe me I don't want to stay being a crap thrower! At the moment I don't have kit to get myself into a tree but I'm working on that, just trying to figure out what to buy and spend the pennies wisely! I have my harness, lanyard and foot ascender sorted, at the moment I'm trying to decide what ropes to buy. All I was looking for is some tips for if I get stuck on the next assessment, I'm quite happy to go and spend time practicing up a tree once I get my own kit,

We were all climbing different trees at the same time, guy in a tree near me even said he wasn't sure how I was going to get the rope up 😂

Yea that's what I was doing, but had branches and twigs in the way, might've given it a quick prune if I had my silky with me! 😂

After I was told not to use the carabiner anymore I bundled up a few loops, then a few wraps around the rope and had to try and throw that up and over.

I actually said this to the trainer and assessor, that on the last day I felt like that's the point I should've been at on the 4th day. Oh the whole the outline of the assessment was... Questions - Answered extremely well Getting ropes up into the tree - Not too bad 3 Knot system - Best of the day Climbing up into the tree - No problem High anchor point - Struggled to get the rope over the higher branch Branch walk - No problem, good technique, put most of my weight into the rope Pole rescue - Missing bridge connection as I didn't have the strap Canopy rescue - Only issue was the lanyard mistake, didn't remove 2nd rope until sorted The two main things that I really messed up on was just equipment, like I said that's an easy fix for next time, I just want to massively improve on getting the high anchor much faster, the growth that was making it hard to get the higher anchor from the ground was still in the way up in the tree, if I bundled the rope up it got caught easier which is why I'm tempted to take a throw bag to put on the end of the rope, might make it easier? I can throw when I'm on the ground but up in the tree where I can't use more of my body I suck at throwing, but then I need to be in the tree to practice and currently don't have a way of doing that 😌

Most of it went ok, I had a couple of mistakes, mostly caused by the fact I bought myself a harness as I wasn't getting on with the one I was hiring so ended up changing a few things which caused problems, using a new harness for the assessment maybe wasn't a good idea! I put a carabiner on the tail end of my lanyard to keep it out of the mud then stupidly put that end round the tree and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't bite, other one was the strap I needed for the bridge to bridge rescue was still on the other harness. The equipment issues I can fix, I'm going to start investing in my own kit so it's setup the way I want it and I can use it how I want, the only issue I was struggling with was how to get the rope up onto a higher anchor point. Don't get me wrong I'm sad I didn't pass but also agree with the reasons why I didn't pass so just looking at correcting the issues before the next assessment.

I was using a throwline from the ground to initially get the ropes into the tree but there was too much growth in the way to get them as high as I wanted so had to settle for lower points. I was asked not to use the hire carabiner to try and help throw the rope up higher.

I tried that, sometimes I got the height but no forward momentum, other times it went forward but not up, I'm just not great at throwing a rope and even worse when I can't use the rest of my body to help! 😂

I was using one until I got asked not to as it was hire kit, after that I was really stuck 😅

By the time I'd done my limb walk it was about 4 hours, so far too long, just frustrating that it just came down to not being able to get the rope to where I needed it which is why I want to try and prepare to help with my shortcomings for next time.

Nice idea, I'll look into that one!

Hello, well as the title says I failed my CS38 couple of really stupid mistakes that are easy fixes but on the feedback the assessor advised that he wasn't happy with how long it took me to setup my anchor points and that I should've gone higher, Which I agree with. The issue is I couldn't figure out how to get higher! I couldn't really go any higher on my current points and I wasn't able to throw the rope high enough to get up to the next branch, I was thinking of trying a throwbag next time but I was wondering if anyone has any hints and tips that might help? Any help appreciated 🙃