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Ok, here, I set up an anchor, since I was going to do multiple rappels(blue webbing is the anchor, maroon runner is a backup-perhaps pointless in this case, but habitual).
After setting up the anchor, I attached the rope with a figure 8 at the center, and climbed back down to where I could see the bottom to make sure the ends made it all the way to the ground. Rapped it on a double strand first, which gives a lot of friction, and walked it down to make sure I wasn't missing anything.
Then I rolled up one side of the rope, so it'd be out of the way.
Really didn't need to do all that. I could have just anchored it, then thrown the rope down when I was done, and climbed back down, but I wanted to carry everything out on the last rappel, and not have to go back up there.
Since it's already been established that the rope is long enough to rap on a double strand, when I'm done, I remove my anchor, take the figure 8 out of the rope, and-here's how simple it'd be when hiking(ideally, anyway): run the rope around the tree, rappel the double strand to the ground, pull on one side of the rope so that it falls down, roll the rope up, and go. An even better way is to use a retrievable anchor with a pull cord, but then you have more stuff to carry.
I'd wanted to set up a rappel into the Grotto:
But the only access I could find was free-climbing this wall with a pack on, and then having to do it again for each rappel, plus having to set up another rappel to get my stuff back down if things weren't convenient like in the pics above. Seemed like it'd be asking for trouble, and I wanted to keep it safe...
I liked the lower cliff line above the amphitheater well enough.
It was fun, either way!
After setting up the anchor, I attached the rope with a figure 8 at the center, and climbed back down to where I could see the bottom to make sure the ends made it all the way to the ground. Rapped it on a double strand first, which gives a lot of friction, and walked it down to make sure I wasn't missing anything.
Then I rolled up one side of the rope, so it'd be out of the way.
Really didn't need to do all that. I could have just anchored it, then thrown the rope down when I was done, and climbed back down, but I wanted to carry everything out on the last rappel, and not have to go back up there.
Since it's already been established that the rope is long enough to rap on a double strand, when I'm done, I remove my anchor, take the figure 8 out of the rope, and-here's how simple it'd be when hiking(ideally, anyway): run the rope around the tree, rappel the double strand to the ground, pull on one side of the rope so that it falls down, roll the rope up, and go. An even better way is to use a retrievable anchor with a pull cord, but then you have more stuff to carry.
I'd wanted to set up a rappel into the Grotto:
But the only access I could find was free-climbing this wall with a pack on, and then having to do it again for each rappel, plus having to set up another rappel to get my stuff back down if things weren't convenient like in the pics above. Seemed like it'd be asking for trouble, and I wanted to keep it safe...
I liked the lower cliff line above the amphitheater well enough.
It was fun, either way!
Dude, that cave is cool as hell! You could live in that thing, hold off zombies, whatever. It's awesome how exuberant you get, haha, it really comes through in the vids.
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