Top Rope Solo Chest Harness

The top device is your primary self belay.

Top rope solo chest harness.

Solo was successfully added to your cart. Rope soloing is highly dangerous and demands a great deal of experience and good judgment and in many ways is more dangerous than free soloing due to an increased reliance on systems. Russian ushba i believe not. Connect both devices onto the rope and into your belay loop as shown above.

Solo top rope self belay advice some progress capture pulleys and ascenders can be rigged to travel along a fixed line providing a self belay for a solo top rope climbing experience. But top rope often solo and have used different devices e g. Solo top roping is a great way to get a lot of laps in and have a positive training day when you can t find a partner or are just looking for some solitude. This blog is not meant as instructional text and is simply a description of how i rope solo.

En 12841 b en 567. To keep it in the ideal position for braking and separate it from the other device connect the top device to a chest harness a pair of slings draped over each shoulder so they cross in the middle or a single sling. Can be used on ropes ranging from 8 13mm in diameter. I have owned a number of ropes devices and harnesses and have finally settled on a kit that works great and makes solo toproping a dream.

Instead i m going to go over my solo toprope kit. I have one 70 meter 9mm static rope and another 40 meter 10mm static rope. Fix your 9 2 10 4mm rope off a solid top anchor. So i won t go through the whole process.

For extra efficiency use a chest harness or a loop of webbing improvised as a chest harness plus a carabiner and a thin cord to hold the micro traxion high. Instead he sets up a fixed line from a solid anchor above the route attaches himself to the rope with two pcds e g petzl micro traxion or camp lift and then climbs up while the pcds move up the rope. Black line solo. This not only helps the feeding but also keeps it out of the way of your backup device.

Caldwell drapes a headlamp strap around his neck and clips this to his device. Camp industrial height safety 10 holt place 8053. Using a static rope is most convenient but a dynamic will work as well. Rappel the pitch on a single strand placing a few pieces of directional gear if needed.