How to Set Up a Tag Line for Rappeling

Learn how to set up a tag line for rappeling with instruction from the @American Mountain Guides Association

[zonlymachine]

2:35 always weight your rappel system before coming off of PAS.

[NorthWashOutdoors]

Good info. We use this or a similar technique in Canyoneering to constantly be retrieving our rope as we are travelling down a canyon.

[swihhsson]

Thank you for the good information. I finally have found this info to retrieve the rope.

[themountainknights]

Thankyou for the video. Always a pleasure to watch your tutorial videos.

[davidchur]

Wouldn't an alpine butterfly be a better knot for blocking the rope with the carabiner?

[misterlarryb]

I see some interesting criticism below, but to my limited knowledge and experience, this looks like very good stuff.  Thanks! Three comments/questions:  First, around 0:16, "when you just want to carry a single line for the leading, and have a secondary line for rapping" might be more descriptive and accurate to say "when you just want to carry a main line for leading and rapping, and have a secondary,  lightweight, non-life support safety line to pull down the main line after using it for one long single-line rappel."  Second, around 0:46, why is the lower hanger nearly horizontal and not vertical the same as the stacked anchor/hanger above it?  Third, around 2:13, why say "even though all the weight is on my main line" when rapping on both?  I'll have to try it, of course, but it seems to me if you hold both lines, or have the autoblock back-up around both lines, then some degree of weight (up to half) would be on the tag line.  Not a safety issue since the main line is bomber, even if the tag line lets go.

[Alvinyokatori]

Nice I can finally make some use of these 30m ropes

[ChungPeng]

The qd at 2:20 that’s holding the rope and tag line: is that clipped to the top tie in loop on his harness?

[kitbarton]

Petzl cashing in on the free advertising here.

[thomashirtz]

I am not sure I understand the "epinephrine" at 0:33
Can someone explain to me ?

[marketingheroai]

What do you do it the ropes do get twisted or if the carabiner/knot does get stuck when you are pulling it?

[maxbitel]

Any thoughts on having a biner + bight knot in the system as far as getting the rope stuck on the pull? I was tought that one of the reasons the EDK (overhand knot) is used to join two ropes for rappel is because it's less likely to get stuck when pulling the rope after finishing the rappel. I can see the biner+knot in the video getting very jammed in a crack when pulling...

[sense-of-scale]

Is it a good idea to apply the Prusik knot to both ropes at the same time? If you're effectively rappeling down on your main rope (orange) why not putting the prusik just to that one? Anyone has any idea why he did it like that?

[albinomattosfilho]

Why did you use just one point of the anchor ?
Why weight the Master (blue) carabiner triaxly?
Just my 2

[HHummer]

It would definitely suck if you forget to undo your stopper knot before pulling the Rope up.

[jayrajjoshi]

Thanks for sharing such formal information

[ryanwsu]

I know its not weighted at all and is just there to pull the repel line down, but what do people tend to use for a tag line?

[comet]

why not have an a similar overhand not for the tagline and clip that into the biner as well? This would avoid having two diameter ropes tied together and seems easier to undo and redo.

[marcosilva]

can u use a grigri for rappel with a tagline and dich the third hand?

[JanBoshoff]

I thought it was a bad idea to load a carabiner in 3 directions?