HOW TO SELF BELAY from a TOP ROPE NOT FIXED
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It seems a bit complicated. But let me explain
I am going on a trekking trip which I will be coming down an approx 80 to 100 foot cliff.
The thing is that I will not be climbing back up. This is just a belay and then I will keep trekking to destination. What I was gonna do is this: use a couple of trees as anchors to attach tubular webbing to them and have an O RING passing through the webbing. ( by the way I use O rings because I am not recuperating the Tubular weebbing and the rings. this Way Im not leaving behind some expensive carabiners.
once I have prepared the anchors. I would attach my harness with a figure 8 and then pass the other end of the rope through the O ring and then loop the other part of the rope to my locking carabiner and my ATC device for belaying. So the principle is that once I get down. I can retreive my rope and continue my way only leaving behind approx 5$ worth of equipment being the Tubular webbing and the O ring.
IS THIS CORRECT ??? What other way would there be ?
thank you for a quick reply.
Jason
here is a pic of the O RING ,... it can take 17 KN
(This post was edited by dj_orka on Mar 31, 2009, 4:21 PM)
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