Hello Good Day !! Your videos are very good, in which situations is this configuration recommended? When you are guiding a multi-pitch as first and you have to go down a pitch and then continue ascending? regards
Hi Rodolfo. Good question. This is a good thing to do if you reach the top of a climb where the descent is to rappel the same route you just climbed and there isn't a ton of room for your 2nd or 3rd so you might just send them down with a lower so there aren't a ton of people at the belay station while you're trying to rig the ropes for rappel. It can also be a faster method of bailing from a route if say a storm comes in. You can send your partner straight down and now you know at least one end of your rope is on the ground for your own rappel. If you have to lower someone who is mid route, (perhaps in case of an emergency) this setup would require either a load transfer or for the climber to unweight the rope (backup the system of course!) This is also a good method if say you have a partner or client who is uncomfortable rappelling on there own, but fine being lowered. This method would be most applicable if you can lower them all the way to the ground or if your partner is skilled enough to make a new anchor below and clip into it. I hope that helps?
@@lead.likeagirl excellent, thank you very much for the explanation. Seeing the other series of videos I understood the process, but your explanation left me without a doubt
Hello Good Day !! Your videos are very good, in which situations is this configuration recommended? When you are guiding a multi-pitch as first and you have to go down a pitch and then continue ascending? regards
Sorry there were no previous videos, with this video I understood: D th-cam.com/video/IU--8Cofl9w/w-d-xo.html
Hi Rodolfo. Good question. This is a good thing to do if you reach the top of a climb where the descent is to rappel the same route you just climbed and there isn't a ton of room for your 2nd or 3rd so you might just send them down with a lower so there aren't a ton of people at the belay station while you're trying to rig the ropes for rappel. It can also be a faster method of bailing from a route if say a storm comes in. You can send your partner straight down and now you know at least one end of your rope is on the ground for your own rappel. If you have to lower someone who is mid route, (perhaps in case of an emergency) this setup would require either a load transfer or for the climber to unweight the rope (backup the system of course!) This is also a good method if say you have a partner or client who is uncomfortable rappelling on there own, but fine being lowered. This method would be most applicable if you can lower them all the way to the ground or if your partner is skilled enough to make a new anchor below and clip into it. I hope that helps?
@@lead.likeagirl excellent, thank you very much for the explanation. Seeing the other series of videos I understood the process, but your explanation left me without a doubt