Lead Rope Solo Devices

A lead climbing belay requires more attentiveness and rope management skill than a top rope belay.

Lead rope solo devices.

And by the way. Feeding slack is a category we include to measure each device s usefulness for belaying a lead climber. Lead the pitch climb the fixed line back to the anchor re clipping all the pieces. This blog is not meant as instructional text and is simply a description of how i rope solo.

For this answer i ll discuss the devices and considerations specific to lead soloing rather than describe a particular technique. There are very few devices on the market for roped solo lead climbing. The ability to take and give slack quickly and precisely is important to ensure a good belay especially when close to the ground. I am considering getting a silent partner so to have a device that i could use for rappel and top rope climbing though it s mostly used for roped lead so not have the need to switch the setup between going up.

Therefore it s important to have a backup. Hey your post inspired me a lot and today i climbed for the first time on top 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. Rock exotica s soloist device used a camming mechanism similar to that of petzl s grigri.