I’m looking into changing it up and moving on from the madrock next year and curious what my options are for ascending. I know a lot of this has already been discussed in different threads the problem is I don’t always understand the terms people are using as someone with no rock climbing experience. I’m pretty sure I’m going to go with an ATC with an auto block to descend from my tree and keep my madrock as a backup in my bag. As far as ascending goes, what are my options? I don’t hate mechanical devices but I’ve become more wary of relying on them alone. Do people use auto blocks while ascending as well or is that mostly for descending the tree? I’d ideally like to try something that isn’t super high maintenance and required a bunch of different ropes, devices, but is also on the safer side. Hopefully this isn’t too vague if anyone has any suggestions I’d appreciate it.