Lowering a lead climber from an anchor: Difference between revisions
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=== Lowering from a pre-built sport anchor === | === Lowering from a pre-built sport anchor === | ||
==== step-by-step description ==== | |||
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|Pull a bit of slack (1) | |||
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|Tie a [[Figure_eight#On_a_bight_(tie_in_in_a_middle)|Figure 8 on a bight]] (2) | |||
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|Clip it to your harness belay loop by a carabiner (3) and screw its gate (4) | |||
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|Undo the Figure 8 by which you were originally tied-in (5) | |||
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|And completely untie the knot (6) | |||
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|Pull the loose end of the rope through the rappel ring (7) | |||
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|Once the rope is through you got to attach it back to yourself | |||
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|[[Figure_eight#Follow-through_(tie-in_on_the_rope_end)|Tie-in by a Figure 8]] (8) | |||
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|You will get lowered on this knot, inspect that it is tied properly and through both of the harness loops (9) | |||
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|Unscrew the carabiner (10), detach it from your haness (11) and untie the Figure 8 on a bight (12) | |||
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|Now remove the two carabiners for the toprope from the setup (13) | |||
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|Ask belayer to block to test the setup before removing your personal anchor (14) | |||
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|Inspect that both tie-in (15) and threading of the rope through the anchor rappel ring (16) are correct | |||
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|Unscrew (17) and clean-up (18) the rest of your parts of the anchor | |||
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|And get lowered (19) by a belayer | |||
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=== Lowering from a pre-built sport anchor - quick method === | |||
TODO | TODO | ||