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Re: [currupt4130] Trad Texas Rope Trick:
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malcolm777b
Dec 15, 2009, 9:02 PM
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currupt4130 wrote: moose_droppings wrote: I guess I misunderstood you and thought you had tied into two pieces with the rope end to retrieve them. Didn't see how that would work. I wasn't there so...... If you had a horn that was large enough to have trouble getting a sling off of it 60ft away, couldn't you have just put the middle of your rope over it and rapped? The horn was big enough on the edges to take a dynema sling around it, and I was scared rapping off it as it was. I don't think a rope would have held around the edges of this particular horn.
If the horn was bomber to rap off, you could have done a horn version of the Texas Rope Trick. You could wrap the sling such that there are two open ends at the bottom of the sling, then thread the rap to the 1/3 point as in the Texas Rope trick. Then take the other end (the one you're not rapping on) and tie it to one of the open ends of the sling. Rap, pull the rope through, then pull on the tied off end, and with luck (that the sling doesn't hang up on the horn), you get your sling back.
I don't see any reason you would do this though. Any trad climber that goes up a route without knowledge of an established rap station, reasonable walkoff, or other way down and doesn't have bail webbing or equivalent is making a big error IMO.
Edit: I guess you COULD use it as a bold statement of the Leave No Trace ethic....
(This post was edited by malcolm777b on Dec 15, 2009, 9:04 PM)
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Post edited by malcolm777b
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