Lead Rope Solo Devices

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Lead rope solo devices.

For this answer i ll discuss the devices and considerations specific to lead soloing rather than describe a particular technique. The ability to take and give slack quickly and precisely is important to ensure a good belay especially when close to the ground. Feeding slack is a category we include to measure each device s usefulness for belaying a lead climber. There are very few devices on the market for roped solo lead climbing.

Rope soloing is highly dangerous and demands a great deal of experience and good judgment and in many ways is more dangerous than free soloing due to an increased reliance on systems. Rock exotica s soloist device used a camming mechanism similar to that of petzl s grigri. Lead the pitch climb the fixed line back to the anchor re clipping all the pieces. Therefore it s important to have a backup.

A lead climbing belay requires more attentiveness and rope management skill than a top rope belay. Anyone wishing to rope solo should already have an extensive knowledge of all the systems and. When rope soloing you are only attached to the rope via your solo device so if you fell and your solo device failed there is a possibility you could slide completely out the system and off the end of your rope. This blog is not meant as instructional text and is simply a description of how i rope solo.