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Re: [robdotcalm] Do you rappel with a back-up?:
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styndall
Apr 26, 2009, 3:37 PM
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robdotcalm wrote: styndall wrote: I've never used a backup (except a few times when I decided to try it out to see whether I'd want to do it often). If I'm going to need to stop and hang out, I'll use a grigri. If you're doing a standard 2-rope rappel, how do you employ the GriGri as a backup? r.c
The GriGri isn't a backup in that case, it's the rappel device. I run the rope through the rings, keeping the ends even like normal. Then I tie a figure eight on a bight on one side, then clip a locker through the loop that knot creates and over the other strand of rope. I rap on the strand without the knot, then use the other strand to pull the rope.
You can see the technique in this pdf:
http://www.petzl.com/...RIGRI%20D14601-I.pdf
on page 6, illustration 8.
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