really appreciate you taking the time and effort to put up this video - i'm returning to sport climbing after a 10+ year hiatus and this was an extremely helpful refresher!
Great video, thanks for the first-person POV. I have led a few routes in my short time climbing but haven't cleaned my own yet. This gives me a little confidence to actually see what goes on up there. Thanks for sharing!
Great video! I hope to accomplish my first lead this summer (after personal instruction, of course), but this video is great. Now I know what to expect when getting to the top! Thanks for posting!
Thanks for this video. I was looking for a decent one to show a friend before I showed him in person. Surprisingly hard to find one where someone raps from the chains rather than being lowered.
This is a great video, your instructions are very clear, of course I'm not going to go up a route and start cleaning but I'm going to memorize this routine and practice now at my gym :)
awesome job -- thank you -- very detailed, I would still get a guide to walk me through it for the first time but your video is excellent overview of the sequence of steps.
Good comment Dayne. I always check every bolt as I climb and every link at the anchors. I have found countless bolts with nuts that weren't even finger tight, and I've found many quicklinks at the anchors with loose and/or open gates. I carry a wrench in my climbing bag so that I can do maintenance on a climb if necessary before my friends get on it.
Schoffal - let me get this straight. You trust two bolts you're directly attached to less than one bolt you would take a large dynamic fall on? What's more, in order to thread the rope for the rappel, you HAVE to go off belay, which means that a knot clipped into your belay loop is useless anyway.
Thanks for the comment and the input. In my opinion, the autoblock isn’t necessary at that stage because you’re still anchored directly to the chains with a sufficient amount of redundancy. Furthermore, at that point, it may cause confusion (and additional risk) for someone who’s new to the process. Good point about the belay device, but watch carefully how I load the rope into it without ever taking the device’s retaining cable off of my locking biner.
Great video! Never thought of wrapping the rope around the leg to create a brake. Courious if the type of material the pants are made of could effect the friction of the rope around your leg.
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Thanks for actually making a great and helpful video among the sea of dangerously vague and/or misinforming climbing videos on RUclips.
really appreciate you taking the time and effort to put up this video - i'm returning to sport climbing after a 10+ year hiatus and this was an extremely helpful refresher!
Great video, thanks for the first-person POV. I have led a few routes in my short time climbing but haven't cleaned my own yet. This gives me a little confidence to actually see what goes on up there. Thanks for sharing!
This is exactly how I was taught. Very precise and clear instructions. Thanks for posting!
Best explanation and demonstration on cleaning a route on YT. And of course it's from the leader of the Adventure Seekers Society! Thanks Zart!
Nice Job! My 14 year old volunteered to clean a few routes after watching. Thanks
Great video! I hope to accomplish my first lead this summer (after personal instruction, of course), but this video is great. Now I know what to expect when getting to the top! Thanks for posting!
Thanks for this video. I was looking for a decent one to show a friend before I showed him in person. Surprisingly hard to find one where someone raps from the chains rather than being lowered.
This is a great video, your instructions are very clear, of course I'm not going to go up a route and start cleaning but I'm going to memorize this routine and practice now at my gym :)
awesome job -- thank you -- very detailed, I would still get a guide to walk me through it for the first time but your video is excellent overview of the sequence of steps.
Hey!!! This was awesome. Clear direction. Thanks!
Good comment Dayne. I always check every bolt as I climb and every link at the anchors. I have found countless bolts with nuts that weren't even finger tight, and I've found many quicklinks at the anchors with loose and/or open gates. I carry a wrench in my climbing bag so that I can do maintenance on a climb if necessary before my friends get on it.
Very informative, I've always wondered how the heck you clean a sport route.
Great, great video. Im just getting into climbing and read that this one of the more dangerous maneuvers. I was getting scared just watching !
Great refresher on how to correctly clean a sport route. Only thing I might add, is that I like to have the gates on the draw biners opposed.
Schoffal - let me get this straight. You trust two bolts you're directly attached to less than one bolt you would take a large dynamic fall on? What's more, in order to thread the rope for the rappel, you HAVE to go off belay, which means that a knot clipped into your belay loop is useless anyway.
awesome clear instructions, two thumbs up man!
Thanks for the comment and the input. In my opinion, the autoblock isn’t necessary at that stage because you’re still anchored directly to the chains with a sufficient amount of redundancy. Furthermore, at that point, it may cause confusion (and additional risk) for someone who’s new to the process.
Good point about the belay device, but watch carefully how I load the rope into it without ever taking the device’s retaining cable off of my locking biner.
Great video! Never thought of wrapping the rope around the leg to create a brake. Courious if the type of material the pants are made of could effect the friction of the rope around your leg.
thank you for the awesome video