How to Coil a Climbing Rope || REI

Good rope management ensures that you don’t arrive at the crag with your rope in a tangled mess of knots. In this video, Miranda shows you three different ways to coil your rope for storage and for moving between crags. Check it out, then head to your local REI for all the gear and advice you need.

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[Rana-cins]

Birth of a legend- Miranda coils indoors!

[kenbritzius]

Great vid! from 0:25 is the storage butterfly. At 1:40 begins the crag to crag carry. At 3:07 begins the backpack coil. Thanks Miranda!

[fitdoc]

Miranda has the best instructional videos

[tomfrantz]

You are awesome. Thank you. Best teacher, best video.

[LukeBradleyAdventure]

Super easy to learn from! Thanks for the video 🙏🏼

[robertrenelle]

Miranda does an very good job explaining and demonstrating the knots.

[rockhelmer]

I used to use a rope from the back of a horse! Now its one of those bushcraft needs i hope I never have to use, but glad I have one

[gidneybeans]

That just saved me days and days of excess rope coiling time. Ie loads more climbing time! Much appreciated!!

[TheNormalUniverse]

Your videos are awesome! One thing that could also be helpful would be if you show how to flake these coils without making a tangle mess. I always mess it up the first time.

[drnz]

Super helpful--concise and easy to understand and follow--thanks!!!!

[cheesecake]

For the rope pack set up, you can coil from the centre point. You just need the two ends to make the pack, and if you coil from the centre it doesn't matter if you forget to leave enough slack.

[ArashAbravesh]

that's cool 🙂 thank you so much for sharing ...

[climberdad]

Every climber needs to know the butterfly coil. Easy rope management and if done right will never knot up.

[CabinetOfCuriosity]

Actually, it's like one way to do the initial coil and three ways to tie it off, which is helpful. But I do the initial coil totally different because it's easier for me. I always have trouble with the final tie-off trying to balance the the coiled rope and tying. Haven't done it that much however. Perfect practice make perfect.

[TradLadJonny]

Heads up on the backpack coil, instead of wrapping it around your neck start by going under your armpits. You'll avoid having the rope choke you when scrambling or going on approaches.

[vincenzoaugustomarinsens]

Nice instructional videos, and she is cool. Greetings from Brazil =)

[MrAlgy]

For the backpack coil its quicker to loop the rope rather than thread it through. Will also help to sit it up higher to prevent the ends snagging on stuff when scrambling.

[misterlarryb]

Interesting.  I think I've used each of these techniques over the years.  Currently using something similar to the carry-on-the-backpack method:  Butterfly coil from one end of the rope to the other, then a mountaineer coil finish around the middle of the coils, but pre-shorten that final loop used to secure the tail so that after pulling tight, all coils are even and you don't have that one long loop hanging down.  Very easy to untie and stack when the ends are separate.  Question:  Why would you store your ropes with a different method that looks like it has to be untied, stacked and re-coiled to throw onto your backpack?