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After watching Ted Bright climb with his Cranford rope steps and aiders at saddlepalooza it got my gears turnin....I started thinking, why couldn’t I climb the same way with pre-drilled trees and carbon bolts using @ckossuth’s Versa Strap as an aider? I tried it out today and it works better than I could have imagined!
Basically you drill a hole at waist level and one at head level, roughly 3’ apart. Girth hitch the versa strap to your right foot as your moveable aider. Hook the top loop of the versa to the bolt that is head high and step into that and then onto the waist high bolt while leaning back into the lineman rope.
The key is to let your foot with the aider sit on the side of the tree instead of having the tip of your boot in the tree. The aider is basically taking the place of the opposite bolt
Drilling the hole at a slight angle keeps the strap tight to the tree and it doesn’t budge at all. It feels rock solid while climbing and if the tree is already drilled you can be up in about a minute.
9.5 oz and about the size of a cell phone. Pretty cool!
I took a video I’ll try to upload it!
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Basically you drill a hole at waist level and one at head level, roughly 3’ apart. Girth hitch the versa strap to your right foot as your moveable aider. Hook the top loop of the versa to the bolt that is head high and step into that and then onto the waist high bolt while leaning back into the lineman rope.
The key is to let your foot with the aider sit on the side of the tree instead of having the tip of your boot in the tree. The aider is basically taking the place of the opposite bolt
Drilling the hole at a slight angle keeps the strap tight to the tree and it doesn’t budge at all. It feels rock solid while climbing and if the tree is already drilled you can be up in about a minute.
9.5 oz and about the size of a cell phone. Pretty cool!
I took a video I’ll try to upload it!
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