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top rope soloing 1-Jul-2007 At 7:12:49 PM Ronny

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On 28/06/2007 bomber pro wrote:

>have teeth, a lot of people
>don't like using these in the false belief that the teeth will strip the
>mantle off the rope, this can only
>happen if the unit is shock loaded, or not on a chest harness, so don't
>shock load it!, ie a lead fall
>generates such loads, so weight the bottom of the rope and that can't
>happen, you will only a slump
>onto an ascender that is right there with you.
>

Hey Bomb,

How far do you reckon you have to fall to cause a problem like this? I"ve always soloed with a petzl ascender, and have often done it with just a screwgate through the top hole (the one above the clamp) just into my belay loop. It means no chest harnes needed as the biner pulls the device up the rope. I know this isn't the safest method, but the ascender does lock like this, and I only tend to do it on easy ground. But it does mean that if you fell unexpectedly you'd fall about a foot or so before it took up.

My thinking is that this is probably ok for th odd bit of climbing on easy ground - but am no so sure any more.

James