Some raw footage of me aid soloing through the crux of pitch 2 of Touchstone Wall in Zion National Park. patron: / ryantilleyclimbinganda... Instagram: rtillson_
Wow, great video, even if at one point I passed out with fear !!! Seriously, I started (due to covid) solo climbing. I would also like to do aid climbing alone. I think I will use the Grigri. But, friend, you are on another level: good !!!!!!
So like usual in Zion… triCams make it C1. Way to go. How do you like the revo for LRS? Have you taken a fall on it? Did you mod it? Thanks for posting. 🤙🏼
Hey, the revo works great for LRS, I’m totally using it for any bigwall I solo in the future. There are some drawbacks especially when you have pendulums, I’m planning to have a video about that. I havn’t fallen on it yet and I havn’t modded it, but I’ve taken a few controlled falls on it so it seems to work just fine.
Hi Ryan, would a normal nut no have been easier in some of those placements to save the tri cams for when they are the only option? Or is there an advantage to the tri cams even if there is a good constriction. Maybe less directional?
I did this wall back in October, I don’t think the pin got replaced though, it only had one side with a hole to clip into. The other side was broken, it seemed like it was there for a while. I also did the first three pitches last year and it looked like the same pin.
After you climb up the pitch and attach the rope to the anchor you rappel down that same rope back to the last anchor. Then you untie the rope from that lower anchor and ascend up the rope to the anchor at the top of the pitch you just climbed, then you go to the next pitch from there
@@ryantilley9063 thanks for the quick and easy to understand answer. Soloing is not something I have ever done and there are definitely parts of it that scare the bejeezuz out of me, like the idea of repelling alone 8 pitches up. Hats off to you sir
epic footage, hanging around on tricams.
How much shit could you realistically drop before being in big trouble haha
Wow, great video, even if at one point I passed out with fear !!!
Seriously, I started (due to covid) solo climbing. I would also like to do aid climbing alone. I think I will use the Grigri. But, friend, you are on another level: good !!!!!!
So like usual in Zion… triCams make it C1.
Way to go. How do you like the revo for LRS? Have you taken a fall on it? Did you mod it?
Thanks for posting. 🤙🏼
Hey, the revo works great for LRS, I’m totally using it for any bigwall I solo in the future. There are some drawbacks especially when you have pendulums, I’m planning to have a video about that. I havn’t fallen on it yet and I havn’t modded it, but I’ve taken a few controlled falls on it so it seems to work just fine.
@@ryantilley9063 If the revo or the hms have any issue, you fall. To keep yourself safer, connect the back up knot to your belay loop.
The blue tricam starting at 5:00! That seemed so sketchy and close to the edge. Was that high-step as scary for you as it was to watch?
Ya it was a little sketch but after I stepped on the first step it didn’t move a whole lot, so good enough for aid? Haha
This is very cool!
nice warm weather
Hi Ryan, would a normal nut no have been easier in some of those placements to save the tri cams for when they are the only option? Or is there an advantage to the tri cams even if there is a good constriction. Maybe less directional?
How do you clean up all that gear? Love your channel.
Is this recent? Looks like the pin is replaced if so!
I did this wall back in October, I don’t think the pin got replaced though, it only had one side with a hole to clip into. The other side was broken, it seemed like it was there for a while. I also did the first three pitches last year and it looked like the same pin.
How do you retrieve your gear if you are soloing?
After you climb up the pitch and attach the rope to the anchor you rappel down that same rope back to the last anchor. Then you untie the rope from that lower anchor and ascend up the rope to the anchor at the top of the pitch you just climbed, then you go to the next pitch from there
@@ryantilley9063 thanks for the quick and easy to understand answer. Soloing is not something I have ever done and there are definitely parts of it that scare the bejeezuz out of me, like the idea of repelling alone 8 pitches up. Hats off to you sir
Did I miss that somewhere? Were you rope soloing this route? Is that why you tied the backup knot at 2:02?
@@JLeeper84 I think you are correct there. the revo seems to be a good rope solo auto braking device.