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RE: Ulog 16 - Curved Ridge: feeling the fear and doing it anyway!
Congratulations to you and your friend, Ms. Anonymous, on doing this outdoor climb. I just have one question. On the way down, how does the instructor get down? If comes down the rope after you two, then how does he get the rope down? I guess that was two questions, okay, I had two.
Having never been around this I don't have a clue.
Thanks, and that was one of my questions too! Sometimes he just walks down - he's been climbing for 25 years and is like a mountain goat. Other times he does a self-belay, where you wrap the rope round an anchor (a stable rock or very large tree) so it's doubled over on itself. With both ends fed through a belay device and your harness, you can belay yourself down in a controlled way. Once you're at the bottom, you untie yourself and pull the rope back. Genius!
Thanks for that reply, those must be some long ropes he needs in those cases when he does repel down.
60m!
Thx/ that's a big rope.