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1- Disclaimer

by EMDesjardins | Oct, J, PM


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1- Disclaimer
2- Overlook of the course!
  • 2.1- Welcome!
  • 2.2- Your Instructor
  • Course documentation and FB
  • To Lead Rope Solo
3- Introduction
  • 3.1- Normal Climbing Progression
  • 3.2- Solo Course Prerequisites
4- Important Concepts About Climbing Gear
  • 4.1- Gear Intro – The Solo Reality
  • 4.2- Gear Intro – Longevity
5- Revision - How to Build Belay Anchors
  • 5.1- Nylon vs Kevlar
  • 5.2- Knoted Cordelette
  • 5.3- Sliding X with limiter knots
  • 5.4- The Quad
  • 5.5- Double Sliding X
6- Lanyards
  • 6.1- Lanyards – Slings!
  • 6.2- Standard Daisy Chains
  • 6.3- Knoted Rope
  • 6.4- Beal Dynaconnexion
  • 6.5- Petzl Adjust Evolv
  • 6.6- Metolius Easy Daisy and Yates
  • 6.7- Lanyard General Considerations
7- Carabiners / Connectors
  • 7.1- Normal carabiners
  • 7.2- Locking biner Types
  • 7.3- Pear Carabiners
  • 7.4- Special Carabiners / Connectors
  • 7.5- Good alu biners for solo
  • 7.6- Steel biners
  • 7.7- Advantage of Oval biners
8- Ropes and Cords
  • 8.1- Dynamic and Static Ropes
  • 8.2- Nylon Cords
  • 8.3- Special Cords
  • 8.4- Identify Cords
9- Knots
  • 9.1- Retraced figure 8
  • 9.2- Figure 8 on a bigh
  • 9.3- Alpine Butterfly
  • 9.4- Bowline with backup
  • 9.5- Clove Hitch
  • 9.6- Munter Hitch
  • 9.7- Prusik
  • 9.8- Autoblock
  • 9.9- Girth Hitch
  • 9.10- Double and triple fisherman
  • 9.11- Euro Death Knot
  • 9.12- Slip Knot
  • 9.13- Overhand on a bight
  • 9.14- One hand backup knots
10- Rope Grabs
  • 10.1- Rope Grabs Intro
  • 10.2- Petzl Tibloc
  • 10.3- Wild Country Ropeman 1 and 2
  • 10.4- Petzl Protraxion
  • 10.5- Petzl Croll and New Basic
  • 10.6- Petzl Rescucender (Old and New)
  • 10.7- Petzl Shunt
  • 10.8- Wren or R-Exotica Silent Partner
  • 10.9- Petzl Grigri
  • 10.10- Petzl Minitraxion
  • 10.11- Petzl Old Basic and Ascension
  • 10.12- Petzl Microtraxion
  • 10.13- Petzl Microcender
  • 10.14- Wren or R-Exotica Soloist
  • 10.15- Friction Knots (NOT a favorite!!)
  • 10.16 GrandWall uAscend, Camp Lift, Xinda (Note: Camp and Xinda are NOT my favorites)
  • 10.17 Climbing Technology RollNLock
  • 10.18- Edelrid Spoc (NOT recommended)
  • 10.19- Petzl ASAP (NOT recommended)
  • 10.20- TAZ LOV2 and LOV3
11- Fixed Rope Installation
  • 11.1a- Anchor the rope
  • 11.1b- Close the system
  • 11.1c- Be extra safe on top
  • 11.2- Grigri rappel
  • 11.3- Redirect Rope as Needed
  • 11.4- Sharp Edges
  • 11.5- Crux below attachment point
12- Setup for Top Rope Solo
  • 12.1- TR Solo Setup Intro
  • 12.2- Microcender Setup Gear List
  • 12.3- Microcender Setup
  • 12.3b- LOV2 setup (3 videos + notes)
  • 12.3c- Revo Setup
  • 12.3d- Goblin Setup
  • 12.4.1 “Buddy-check” for soloists (Details – 2 Vids)
  • 12.4.2 “Buddy-check” for soloists (Summary)
  • 12.5- Notes: Identical devices, weight on end of rope
  • 12.6- 6mm Cord Option
  • 12.7- Petzl Torse Option
  • 12.8- Microtraxion Option
  • 12.9- Why I like 2 devices on a single rope
  • 12.9b Note if using RollNLock and Micro Traxion
  • 12.10- Maillon quickdraw option
  • 12.11- Bliss Necklace Option
  • 12.12- Bad vs Good Bliss Necklaces
  • 12.13- Simple Chest Slings
  • 12.14- Maillon+Quickdraw Backup Option
  • 12.15- Rappel with Micro Traxion on the Rope
  • 12.16- Pre-stretch the Rope
13- Self-rescue
  • 13.1- Introduction
  • 13.2- Escape up method 1
  • 13.3- Escape up method 2
  • 13.4- Escape up method 3
  • 13.5- Rappel Down + reset climbing
14- Important Notes
  • 14.1- If you fall repeatedly
  • 14.2- Cold, Ice and wet conditions
  • 14.3- Hard moves Introduction
  • 14.4- Work hard moves (up+down)
  • 14.5- Work hard moves microtraxion
15- Next steps
  • 15.1- More resources for you
  • 15.2- Before you go…Conclusion
  • 15.3- BUY LRS ADD ON
16- More Content
  • 16.1- All steps outside – FULL video!
  • 16.2- Long Traversing Climb (50 min)
  • 16.3- TRS with LOV2 example
  • 16.4- The 5 things to Avoid when TRSing!
  • 16.5- TRS a Multi Pitch
  • 16.6 – Attitude When You Fall / Grab the Rope?
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