I’ll see what I can put together tomorrow. It’s really simple though. Before, with my left hand I was pulling up on the tag end of my rope as I step up on the stick, with my right hand around the tree. Now, I. An pull down on the rope as I step up. The motion is more conducive to efficient movement.
Here’s a pic of the setup. The rope that’s going down through the CT RollNLock, that’s the tag end I pull down on as I step up. I’d you choose to do this, and rappel down, you need to make sure you don’t have a stopper knot on the end of your rope, or make sure you have enough rope to make it to the bottom of the tree without the end of your rope meeting your quick link. The other, abs maybe better option, is to take the rope out of the quick link before descending.
Also, and a very important thing too, consider how you tie the quick link in on your rappel line. Here, you see a prussik knot which doesn’t slide super easy in both directions. I learned this lessen the hard way, when I didn’t move it down the rope far enough, and had a really fun time trying to slide my rope down the tree after I reached the bottom. I’ve since changed that to a schwabish hitch. I can pull my pull down cord and the quick link will slide the hitch back, if need be.
Lemme know if this doesn’t make sense and I’ll try to figure out something else.
Semper Fi,
Mike
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