I did all that over and over and over. When it was too tight to cam, I would loosen it the most minuscule amount to get the Cam over. After standing on it like that, it would loosen quite a bit within 30-40 seconds of standing on it. These are the original stepps from Jim, before wild edge existed, so I doubt the rope hasn’t been stretched. The sweet spot between enough slack to get the posts above the rope, and enough tension to cam tight is insanely small. I also have found small trees (similar diameter as the widest portion of the stepp) don’t work well with the stepp ladder in general.I can get them attached, it just takes longer than I would like.
My biggest problem is I was going to try to use them like
@Cain does in his video.
That would have let me drop 1/2 the stepps I needed to carry for the same height. But, I can’t get the stepp attached high enough over my head that the one below it ends up above my belt line. With the stepp just below my belt line.... I can’t use a carabiner on a riggers belt to hook to that stepp, because I would be applying upward force on. Upward force releases the Cam tension which is NO BUENO.
Instead of paying for the stepps, I bought 50 more bolts for my EZ Kut bolt system, will put more offseason practice on my spurs to get more comfortable in them, and will shorten my knock off hawk helium sticks to 20” steps with a single aider.
Those systems are already either at, or very near, proficiency for me.
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