Thread: Alpine ropes harness etc

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

I am not skilled in climbing. But I like to carry a 20 mtr rope for getting down tricky banks and drop offs, belaying river crossings, tying to gut and recover game. I use the rope to measure down a bank, pass it around a tree etc and knot the ends together. That gives 10 metres of safe rope supported decent.

I possibly worded my original post wrong as this is the sort of stuff I was intending on using it for, a 20 odd meter rope and a lightweight harness, not full on ice and nasty mountain climbing. But I will be doing a alpine style course before I venture into anything more than I already do currently while chasing tahr

Originally Posted by c-dog

I possibly worded my original post wrong as this is the sort of stuff I was intending on using it for, a 20 odd meter rope and a lightweight harness, not full on ice and nasty mountain climbing. But I will be doing a alpine style course before I venture into anything more than I already do currently while chasing tahr

I figured that's what you meant as there is generally no anchor points at the top of icey bluffs.
Ropes however are very handy to retrieve your bull thar when it drops into a steep shitty gutter which quite often happens