Passing a Knot on Rappel 

You together with JB mountain skills makes up almost all of my climbing knowledge. Love your hands on, straight to the point teaching!

Nice, Ryan. Very clear, and exactly the way I would teach it!

Hi Ryan, your demonstrations are the best! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!

Thank you for sharing this great video! Your explanation is so clear!

Actions speak louder than words. Excellent demo, thanks.

You have the best content

Good stuff Ryan

Good one Ryan.I think this is the 1st video of yours where I've seen you actually on rope. nice and clear to see your method. just a quick note on wind noise (i know its difficult to deal with ) i taped a small ball of cotton wool over my cameras mic hole with insulation tape. its not a great solution but it does cut the wind noise quite a bit at no cost $. cheers

Great video.

Thanks !

The wind is killing your video!!!

Excellent instruction. Thank you for posting. I need to do a quick release when rappeling to land on water for a movie scene....any thoughts?

Thanks

Bien!!!

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It seems since you already had a triple length sling you could have done a friction hitch to a munter mule on your belay loop and then lowered yourself on to the belay device after passing the knot.

This would be easier if you either munter mule, as advised above, or have an adjustable PAS to the topmost friction hitch so you can extend til the weight it on your bottom friction hitch. That being said a VT Prussik can be released under load.

Nice nice, how’s epc now? Are you staying there for the quarantine?

If yo had used a french prusik (releasable under load) instead of a Klemheist in the first instance, you wouldn't need to make a second prusik for your leg. Just something you might want to consider. It is effectively the same system, but way more efficient.

Can't an alpine butterfly slip really easily? Would it be the ideal choice if your rope is core shot? Would you ever put a non locker in it to prevent slipping?

Potrero Chicoooooooo

Would it not be appropriate to use a VT Prusik so you could release it under load?

Ryan thanks for the knowledge! NOOB QUESTION- Why would there be an alpine butterfly knot midline while rock climbing?

You could tie the top kleimheist to your harness with an MMO, no? That would remove the need to down ascend if it's overhanging

I’ve heard people say not to use those types of slings to make prusik loops because the melting point is too low. I looked it up and it’s not a loooot lower than nylon. But do you think it’s okay to use those types of slings in this setting (that yellow prusik and the black one for the foot loop) because they aren’t sliding under tension, like a repel backup would?

Does it matter, safety -wise, that you didn't return an end of your PAS to the belay loop? Thank you so much for the great video!

Since you know you're going to have to pass a knot, why not rig up with a non-extended rappel and a VT on top? If you attach the VT to your adjustable lanyard, then you're already most of the way done when you get to the knot.

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That footage is from Potrero chico, am I right?

if I have only one of half rope could I go down and up on it? thank you in advance for your reply

Dope Ninja?

Overall this is showing a good technique, but if you use a little know how it’s very rare you should ever have to do it. If you’re doing a double rope rappel, and you know there is a knot in one strand, you don’t need to deal with passing it. Step one, fix the good strand of the rope to the anchor, and have the first person rap on that single strand. Step 2, first person down ties the end of the rope to themselves, or to the next anchor, or to a tree on the ground, or something similar. This is also called a counter balanced rappel. Then the last person raps on the single strand. When they are down, you pull in the side with the knot. Everybody down, fast, smooth, easy, no need to pass the knot. If for some reason you do choose to do it the way that’s shown in the video, only the last person down needs to do this kind of shenanigan. Everybody else can go down with one side of the rope secured to the anchor and use one strand.

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