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by EMDesjardins | Oct, J, PM

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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

7.1- Normal carabiners
7.2- Locking biner Types
7.3- Pear Carabiners
7.4- Special Carabiners
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

10.1- 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
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

15.1- 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- Full answer to Dave McLoed video

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