I watched a quarter of this and went “wait I know this guy.” You guided me in Ouray for an intro to ice climbing this year. Thanks for the great instruction then and now online!
You answered one of my most epic questions when you did that last solo descent and retrieved the rope.. I often find myself on my own in the middle of nowhere and this technique will definitely be useful to overcome terrain challenges especially when I hike off trails.
@Smile Mountain Guides I haven't had the chance to practice it in real life. I just practised with rope at home. I hope to use it in the future on my Solo hiking adventures in the swiss alps.
Love using your vids for season review and prep. Miss climbing with you bro! Hope you guys well. Will hit you up next chance I can when I'm out west, would love it catch up.
I was just telling someone during one of our self rescue courses how you figured out some amazing flashy one handed belay escape haha Sorry to say I can't recall the details of how you did it but I remember you showing me at Safe Harbor.
Thanks for sharing would love to get some deeper thoughts on what seems insane. Most of these skills are common in guiding to protect the descent when a rappel is either less possible or for when the team can be protected quickly with other systems. All the best
Thanks for responding. I got no comments on the first three minutes. But for the rest, although possible techniques, I struggle to see me use them. And I do understand they are more normal in overseas guiding, you don't see them in Europe generally. Personally, I would prefer a munter in these type of situations. Also I would never use that "canyoning" hitch there on that terrain. To recap, I wouldn't say that these techniques are unsafe. However they seem long/complicated for the terrain and here in Europe, people would look at you and scratch their head if you were to break out these techniques as a first resort.
No matter how safe & useful your techniques are, there will always be the "Climbing Police"...a group of people who always think their methods are best or your method is wrong. Then feel the need to force their opinion on everyone. This is only thing I find annoying about mountaineering... Keep up the video's please, I find them really useful 👌🏼
@@SammGraemeMartin thanks for this, indeed it is easier to show these techniques on easier terrain. In that same light it’s easier to teach as well. The way we provide security is still the same it more consequential terrain where one could fall
I watched a quarter of this and went “wait I know this guy.” You guided me in Ouray for an intro to ice climbing this year. Thanks for the great instruction then and now online!
You answered one of my most epic questions when you did that last solo descent and retrieved the rope.. I often find myself on my own in the middle of nowhere and this technique will definitely be useful to overcome terrain challenges especially when I hike off trails.
Hopefully you’ve found it useful on the trails thanks for sharing on here!
@Smile Mountain Guides I haven't had the chance to practice it in real life. I just practised with rope at home. I hope to use it in the future on my Solo hiking adventures in the swiss alps.
What hear some people saying here is that less knowledge is better. Smart.
First tine here, Loved the sign language!! and channel name! thank you for the content!
Clear, simple, easy to understand. Thank you!
Thank you Matthew for the share of thoughts, glad you enjoyed this!
Love using your vids for season review and prep. Miss climbing with you bro! Hope you guys well. Will hit you up next chance I can when I'm out west, would love it catch up.
Any time brotha, glad to hear you’re still out teaching- keep it up!
you explained a lot of things, this is helpful, thank you man
Glad it was helpful thanks for sharing a comment on here 💜
I was just telling someone during one of our self rescue courses how you figured out some amazing flashy one handed belay escape haha Sorry to say I can't recall the details of how you did it but I remember you showing me at Safe Harbor.
Haha, nice, thanks Max- it was a one carabiner belay escape, see if you can figure it out, plus you still get a ground anchor!
That’s fantastic information. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing and commenting ❤️Glad this gave you some value, hope you’re able to practice some of these skills in the mountains soon.
Excellent video, you just got a new subscriber.
Wonderful, glad the video provided some value. Appreciate the comment.❤️
Thanks got a new subscriber
We do it totally different here, but still cool video
Is there a video or book where they cover this type of "protection" techniques for Class 3-4 but for pople that are doing this scrambles alone?
I’m not sure, but I haven’t heard of a book on these topics
@@smilemountainguides Ok, ill keep on searching thank you for the reply.
what is the name of knot with 6-7 daisy
Often it is referred to as the equivocation hitch or macramé hitch. Hope that helps!
Daisy chain of death
Thanks
Welcome thanks for watching 💜
As an European, these techniques seem batshit insane. The are overly complicated and much beter, more efficient systems exist.
Thanks for sharing would love to get some deeper thoughts on what seems insane. Most of these skills are common in guiding to protect the descent when a rappel is either less possible or for when the team can be protected quickly with other systems. All the best
Thanks for responding. I got no comments on the first three minutes. But for the rest, although possible techniques, I struggle to see me use them. And I do understand they are more normal in overseas guiding, you don't see them in Europe generally.
Personally, I would prefer a munter in these type of situations. Also I would never use that "canyoning" hitch there on that terrain.
To recap, I wouldn't say that these techniques are unsafe. However they seem long/complicated for the terrain and here in Europe, people would look at you and scratch their head if you were to break out these techniques as a first resort.
No matter how safe & useful your techniques are, there will always be the "Climbing Police"...a group of people who always think their methods are best or your method is wrong. Then feel the need to force their opinion on everyone. This is only thing I find annoying about mountaineering... Keep up the video's please, I find them really useful 👌🏼
this is so unnecessary.
Wasting so much time with ropes and bullshit gear on terrain you could have just scrambled down
It's an educational video. It was probably much easier to film and instruct on a lower grade. Maybe you meant to watch Free Solo?
@@SammGraemeMartin thanks for this, indeed it is easier to show these techniques on easier terrain. In that same light it’s easier to teach as well. The way we provide security is still the same it more consequential terrain where one could fall
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