Lead Rope Solo Devices

Rock exotica s soloist device used a camming mechanism similar to that of petzl s grigri.

Lead rope solo devices. A lead climbing belay requires more attentiveness and rope management skill than a top rope belay. Therefore it s important to have a backup. Hey your post inspired me a lot and today i climbed for the first time on top rope solo. And by the way.

Rope soloing is highly dangerous and demands a great deal of experience and good judgment and in many ways is more dangerous than free soloing due to an increased reliance on systems. This blog is not meant as instructional text and is simply a description of how i rope solo. For this answer i ll discuss the devices and considerations specific to lead soloing rather than describe a particular technique. Lead the pitch climb the fixed line back to the anchor re clipping all the pieces.

As mentioned the grigri is not. I am considering getting a silent partner so to have a device that i could use for rappel and top rope climbing though it s mostly used for roped lead so not have the need to switch the setup between going up. There are very few devices on the market for roped solo lead climbing. Feeding slack is a category we include to measure each device s usefulness for belaying a lead climber.