Making a Retrievable Snow Anchor for Rappelling (Abseiling)

Описание: If you are facing many rappels (abseils) and only have a limited number of snow pickets, you can construct a retrievable anchor so that you can reuse your pickets again and again. Here is one method for building that anchor.


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Common snow anchors using pickets:    • How to Build Basic Snow Climbing Anchors U...  
Emergency snow anchors:    • Rappel Anchors on Snow Without Snow Picket...  
How to tie an alpine butterfly knot:    • Why and How to Tie the Alpine Butterfly Kn...  
Methods for getting a rappel rope down the pitch:    • Tossing a Climbing Rope for Rappel (Abseil...  


0:00 Intro
0:08 Bumper
0:17 Snow Anchor Series
1:14 Create a Pull Strand
1:46 Place the Vertical Picket
2:00 Place the Horizontal Picket
2:19 Lever Mechanism
2:38 Prepare the Rappel Strand
3:16 Finish the Anchor
3:24 Heading Down
3:29 Retrieving the Pickets
4:45 Outro


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