Rope Skills at Black Rock Gulch

Another day of sun!

This morning regular client Ben and I spent our time working on setting up abseils and bottom roping systems.

Having spent a lot of our previous sessions working through personal climbing with a view of leading and seconding Ben was keen to get to grips with the slightly different approach of being able to head out to the crag and safely set up bottom rope systems for himself and friends.

To allow for descents into inaccessible crags, checking out routes and generally for fun we also looked at setting up and using abseils as well as some ascending.
After some pottering about half way up the crag Ben put his newly learnt skills to the test to set up a bottom rope on an E2 he liked the look of.

Ben's mum (Anne) joined us at midday to get a taste of outdoor climbing. Being an experienced walker and veteran scrambler she also climbs indoors regularly with Ben and Sarah. They all attended an introductory course i was running at RGU: Sport when i was employed there around three years ago.

Again Ben got to use his new skills as well as getting on the lead again for Anne to second.

Another fantastic day; its a shame I'm away indoors to work now!