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Multi Rope Rapelling Question 28-Feb-2013 At 4:11:57 PM Dave_S

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On 28/02/2013 Tim_1964 wrote:
>The other thing is I am currently
>thinking that using F8 knots wherever possible keeps my technique standard
>in all relevant situations.

That's a bit limiting, but you can use a single figure-8 to join two ropes just as easily as tying in to your harness - the figure-8 bend.

However most importantly, you and anyone else attempting this will need to learn how to pass a knot during an abseil. Read up on how to do this, and then practice it on flat ground first. Half way down an 80m abseil is no place to realise that you don't actually know how to get past the knot in the rope. Even worse would be realising at the same time that you also don't know how to ascend a rope.