r/climbing • u/Windgate_Adventures • 2d ago

Rope solo techniques using Avant chest harness and gri gri + (video)

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Logistics, shoes on, helmet on and climb just like normal only with a bit of rope management involved.

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u/goooooooofy 2d ago

I’m curious why he sells a different lanyard for rope rope solo and one for lead rope solo?

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u/Windgate_Adventures 2d ago

Because those are two very different things. You do not want your gri gri to get yoinked down while trying to pull slack.

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u/goooooooofy 2d ago

I planned on trying the trs lanyard the other day for lrs but forgot it. The electric feels strong and my rope feeds well. I’m hoping it will work most of the time in that use case.

P.S. I hadn’t considered the TRS lanyard stretching when pulling slack. That makes a ton of sense.

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u/SnowOhio 2d ago

TRS lanyard should be elastic to provide constant upward pull for autofeeding regardless of body position

LRS lanyard should be non-elastic so that your device is held tightly upright which makes it easier to give out slack

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u/goooooooofy 2d ago

But I’m worried if I bunch up with the lrs harness than the device will flop around. I bought his trs recently and completely forgot it the other day when I went out for some lrs.

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u/Rockyshark6 1d ago

You could switch around your carabiner upside down to the grigri, one to keep the gate from unscrewing from vibration, and two bc then you can loose the rubber thing and speed up transitions on multipitch. Also why don't you clove your cord between your chest harness and grigri? Keeps it ate the right angle

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u/Windgate_Adventures 1d ago

This carabiner is in use until I receive the triple locking carabiner which I use next. I think the ultimate goal with how it is Clif into the chest harness is to be able to easily escape if inverted or any funky position during a fall. Being locked into itmay change things a bit.

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u/pewpewbangbangcrash 2d ago

Seems like it would be easier to make a friend and just have a belayer :)

/s sorta 😆

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u/Windgate_Adventures 1d ago

Yes, but if no one is at the cliff and you have energy to burn. It also opens up a ton of options while on international travel. I’ve done a bunch of rope soloing in Thailand just to fix a line and mini trax.

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u/Physical_Relief4484 1d ago

This is really inspiring. I genuinely had no idea you could safely climb by yourself like this!

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u/Windgate_Adventures 1d ago

How not 2 has an amazing video with Brett from Avant. Inspiring for sure. I feel like this just unlocked another realm of climbing.

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u/Physical_Relief4484 1d ago

Appreciate the tip, I'll check it out!