Lead Rope Solo Devices

The ability to take and give slack quickly and precisely is important to ensure a good belay especially when close to the ground.

Lead rope solo devices.

Therefore it s important to have a backup. There are very few devices on the market for roped solo lead climbing. Feeding slack is a category we include to measure each device s usefulness for belaying a lead climber. A lead climbing belay requires more attentiveness and rope management skill than a top rope belay.

Rock exotica s soloist device used a camming mechanism similar to that of petzl s grigri. For this answer i ll discuss the devices and considerations specific to lead soloing rather than describe a particular technique. As mentioned the grigri is not. Hey your post inspired me a lot and today i climbed for the first time on top rope solo.

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. This blog is not meant as instructional text and is simply a description of how i rope solo. 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. Lead the pitch climb the fixed line back to the anchor re clipping all the pieces.