What?!! Rock climbers do not use a 2 rope system!! (( btw Window washers and recreational rock climbers use completely different equipment and setups, obviously. With different functions and ratings. I don't know why you would lump these two activities together! One would never rock climb on a static rope used for windowwashing, or rope access work)) and rock climbers don't use a back up rope!! Or even a fixed rope with one end tied off for that matter. A key difference is that a worker moves along a pair of fixed ropes, tied to the structure, [ on srperate anchors] while a climber has the end of the rope tied to the climber, with the rope moving up with the climber. A second climbing partner controls the length of the rope as the leader goes up, and catches them if they fall, but otherwise keeps giving them slack to keep climbing. ( There's a lot more but that is a key difference..) Even the people in the stock footage shown here are rappeling and ascending a single line! Why say bs like that? It makes everything else questionable, even though you seem to otherwise know what you are talking about ! This is baffling. Why destroy your credibility with that random bs detail.. ???!! Why? Modern rock climbing anchors and rap stations are usually redundant, But not the rope! There is a niche style called twin ropes as well as double ropes.. but these methods are the overwhelming exception.. Almost all roped climbing utilizes a single dynamic rope.. I don't have experience with double or twin ropes myself.... To the best of my knowledge: Twin ropes are used in parallel, Usually if there are concerns about the rope being cut over a edge during a fall, allowing some degree of redundancy to being cut or damaged (I think, dont quote me on that one,) as well as the advantage of having access to the entire length of the twin ropes (side by side to rappel down. (Rather than folding a single rope in half, and having only half the rope length to rap, before needing another rap station) Twin ropes take a single path side by side, and would eventually through a single, albiet redundant anchor point) Twin ropes are not rated to be used individually. Double ropes, which each can be used individually, take different paths as opposed to twin ropes, but the reason for this is not so much for redundancy as for being able to reduce rope drag when the route wanders a good deal or the goes in-between two gear lines. At a given moment only one of the ropes would be used to catch a fall. And again these ropes would eventually converge at a single anchor.
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Rock climbers do not use a 2 rope system!!
(( btw Window washers and recreational rock climbers use completely different equipment and setups, obviously. With different functions and ratings. I don't know why you would lump these two activities together! One would never rock climb on a static rope used for windowwashing, or rope access work)) and rock climbers don't use a back up rope!! Or even a fixed rope with one end tied off for that matter.
A key difference is that a worker moves along a pair of fixed ropes, tied to the structure, [ on srperate anchors] while a climber has the end of the rope tied to the climber, with the rope moving up with the climber. A second climbing partner controls the length of the rope as the leader goes up, and catches them if they fall, but otherwise keeps giving them slack to keep climbing. ( There's a lot more but that is a key difference..)
Even the people in the stock footage shown here are rappeling and ascending a single line!
Why say bs like that?
It makes everything else questionable, even though you seem to otherwise know what you are talking about ! This is baffling.
Why destroy your credibility with that random bs detail.. ???!!
Why?
Modern rock climbing anchors and rap stations are usually redundant, But not the rope!
There is a niche style called twin ropes as well as double ropes.. but these methods are the overwhelming exception.. Almost all roped climbing utilizes a single dynamic rope.. I don't have experience with double or twin ropes myself.... To the best of my knowledge: Twin ropes are used in parallel, Usually if there are concerns about the rope being cut over a edge during a fall, allowing some degree of redundancy to being cut or damaged (I think, dont quote me on that one,) as well as the advantage of having access to the entire length of the twin ropes (side by side to rappel down. (Rather than folding a single rope in half, and having only half the rope length to rap, before needing another rap station) Twin ropes take a single path side by side, and would eventually through a single, albiet redundant anchor point) Twin ropes are not rated to be used individually. Double ropes, which each can be used individually, take different paths as opposed to twin ropes, but the reason for this is not so much for redundancy as for being able to reduce rope drag when the route wanders a good deal or the goes in-between two gear lines. At a given moment only one of the ropes would be used to catch a fall. And again these ropes would eventually converge at a single anchor.
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