Glad to hear! When I was learning to aid I had a hard time finding videos of real aid climbing. I wanted to post some videos that I would have found useful myself. I'm glad you got some value out of them. Rock on!
Really helpful to see how the whole pitch goes, the rhythm of placing gear, attach daisy/etrier, yard up, release the lower daisy, free the etrier, repeat. A little surprised how much back cleaning you do, but it looked like a pretty small rack, and I didn’t see any haul bags. Did you guys do Prow in-a-day?
Thanks! When leaning how to aid I found very few videos of the whole uncut process so I wanted to create some of my own. Hope these are helpful. We did almost Prow in a day but rappelled at the last pitch since it was getting late and we didn't want to do the descent for the first time in the dark.
Hey man let me just say awesome videos. I'm moving back out west in August and I may take this sport up. I used to indoor rock climb growing up but never outdoors.
Thanks for the vid. Every other video I've watched trying to explain aid climbing is confusing. Interested in possibly taking up this aspect of climbing, it looks pretty sick. I seen that you back cleaned a few pieces, is this just to save that piece for another section of the route?
Thanks! when I started learning to aid climb I also found people explaining it but very few videos of anyone actually climbing so wanted to make some that I myself would have found useful back then. I'm back cleaning because when aiding you need to place every 3-4 feet. Leaving all those pieces in you would quickly run out of gear in a ~150' pitch.
Eagle eye! But we are using gri-gri's for belay which are auto locking. Pletzl doesn't say they are hands free, but they are pretty reliable and this is a low enough risk situation on a good piece and he needs to help me with gear. No biggie in this case.
@@GreenGloop assisted braking* ive done enough soloing with the grigri to know that the rope can slip out 10+ feet of rope before engaging or it doesnt engage period. im sure its fine, but really should have had a backup knot.
Amazing climb , the micro nut placement was epic, pretz quickdraws over other positioning lanyards.
Hello, thanks for sharing your technique! I have learned a lot. greetings from Argentina South America
Glad to hear! When I was learning to aid I had a hard time finding videos of real aid climbing. I wanted to post some videos that I would have found useful myself. I'm glad you got some value out of them. Rock on!
Really helpful to see how the whole pitch goes, the rhythm of placing gear, attach daisy/etrier, yard up, release the lower daisy, free the etrier, repeat. A little surprised how much back cleaning you do, but it looked like a pretty small rack, and I didn’t see any haul bags. Did you guys do Prow in-a-day?
Thanks! When leaning how to aid I found very few videos of the whole uncut process so I wanted to create some of my own. Hope these are helpful. We did almost Prow in a day but rappelled at the last pitch since it was getting late and we didn't want to do the descent for the first time in the dark.
Hey man let me just say awesome videos. I'm moving back out west in August and I may take this sport up. I used to indoor rock climb growing up but never outdoors.
Thank you for this video. its so simple to understand.
dude why didnt you free climb that first section! hahaha looks insane, great video!
Thanks for the vid. Every other video I've watched trying to explain aid climbing is confusing. Interested in possibly taking up this aspect of climbing, it looks pretty sick. I seen that you back cleaned a few pieces, is this just to save that piece for another section of the route?
Thanks! when I started learning to aid climb I also found people explaining it but very few videos of anyone actually climbing so wanted to make some that I myself would have found useful back then. I'm back cleaning because when aiding you need to place every 3-4 feet. Leaving all those pieces in you would quickly run out of gear in a ~150' pitch.
@@GreenGloop Makes sense. Appreciate the reply
Don't know the system for aid, but at 2:09 looks like belayer has both hands off the belay....
Eagle eye! But we are using gri-gri's for belay which are auto locking. Pletzl doesn't say they are hands free, but they are pretty reliable and this is a low enough risk situation on a good piece and he needs to help me with gear. No biggie in this case.
@@GreenGloop assisted braking* ive done enough soloing with the grigri to know that the rope can slip out 10+ feet of rope before engaging or it doesnt engage period. im sure its fine, but really should have had a backup knot.
Thats a Surprise Pitch isnt It 🤓
a lot of fun to aid. Would be a great pitch if someone were strong enough to free it too!
@@GreenGloopgoes at 12-!
@@chrisbarnes9567 One of these days...!