Really nice video, thanks. Bomber anchor with those 3 good pieces all well equalised. I have yet to climb at Tremadog but I hear it's good, being Midlands based everywhere is more than an hour away, but subsequently we have the luxury of going where the weather is best. Shrewsbury/Shropshire, Wye valley, Bristol, Trevor and the South peaks are all 1-1.5hrs away. Proper Snowdonia and the Lake District is 3 hours.
Heaps of different ways to get down of mountains and most of the time you don't need to leave kit behind. You'd need to set up a retrievable abseil - we should do a vid showing this but there are plenty on youtube. If it's a popular climbing area there will often be a fixed anchor or gear in place to allow you to do this.
Things have changed quite a bit since I began climbing in the 70s. Even now, I generally only abseil when I have to..and then I find a solid trustworthy (I hope!) sling anchor (e.g. sling threaded through hole in rock, or over a secure flake), thread the rope through this till you reach the middle of the rope, tie the ends together, then cast the rope down where you wish to abseil, then abseil down using belay device or Fig of 8 (smoothly, no jumping about commando-style!) then pull the rope through when reaching the stance or ground (obviously you have to sacrifice a sling).
Not totally sure I understand the question. But you could climb up the rope if it was already fixed above you yeah. th-cam.com/video/6_lyZteCqgc/w-d-xo.html this video show an improvised way of doin gthis. Faster more efficient methods recommended if you know this is going to be part of your day.
Really nice film 🎥. Clear and really good with no unnecessary faff ✅
ah, thanks. But watching it back myself there are a few things id do differently next time. thanks,
Really nice video, thanks. Bomber anchor with those 3 good pieces all well equalised. I have yet to climb at Tremadog but I hear it's good, being Midlands based everywhere is more than an hour away, but subsequently we have the luxury of going where the weather is best. Shrewsbury/Shropshire, Wye valley, Bristol, Trevor and the South peaks are all 1-1.5hrs away. Proper Snowdonia and the Lake District is 3 hours.
Really nice video thank you
what about when you get to the ground and all your gear is up a mountain?
Heaps of different ways to get down of mountains and most of the time you don't need to leave kit behind. You'd need to set up a retrievable abseil - we should do a vid showing this but there are plenty on youtube. If it's a popular climbing area there will often be a fixed anchor or gear in place to allow you to do this.
Things have changed quite a bit since I began climbing in the 70s. Even now, I generally only abseil when I have to..and then I find a solid trustworthy (I hope!) sling anchor (e.g. sling threaded through hole in rock, or over a secure flake), thread the rope through this till you reach the middle of the rope, tie the ends together, then cast the rope down where you wish to abseil, then abseil down using belay device or Fig of 8 (smoothly, no jumping about commando-style!) then pull the rope through when reaching the stance or ground (obviously you have to sacrifice a sling).
Is it possible to do this in reverse, like if you dropped into a canyon and wanted to go up the same way?
Not totally sure I understand the question. But you could climb up the rope if it was already fixed above you yeah. th-cam.com/video/6_lyZteCqgc/w-d-xo.html this video show an improvised way of doin gthis. Faster more efficient methods recommended if you know this is going to be part of your day.
How do you do this with a half rope/half ropes please?
Me n the boys doing this straight away don’t see anything going wrong
For the anchor, why did you decide to use overhands instead of alpine butterflies? (Not a criticism by the way, a general query)
Alpine butterflies would work fine. For me they take a tiny bit longer to tie and I just find it quicker to fire in an overhand knot. Boom done.
@@sam_farns_climbing can’t say fairer than that! Thanks for replying