Multipitch Rock Rope Systems for Parties of Three

This video provides a humorous overview of three systems commonly used by parties of three when climbing multipitch rock. Recommended uses and system problems are outlined with detailed animations.

[CalvinArterberry]

Love the animations!! Very informative video. Thank you for taking the time to create it!

[allyhaysalberstat]

Awesome video. We approve. Love the addition of stop motion animation :) off to three person rappel! (With an experienced leader ;))

[brunomarques]

Thanks for this very fun animation :p
I just went today on a long and hard approach with two not-so-motivated partners (experienced sport climbers but novice MP climbers just like me) for a very easy MP route, but ended up bailing before even starting the climb, too afraid of the long traverse and wet cracks we could see from down below. Here was my idea for climbing that route as a party of 3:
- Leader ties in at one end of our twin ropes
- least experienced climber ties in to an Alpine butterfly with 2 screw gates opposite and opposed, about 7-8m from the other end of both ropes
- most experienced follower ties in at the end of both ropes
- leader leads the pitch (max 50m pitch with 60m rope), sets up the belay, and starts belaying the followers
- both followers climb together, synchronously, 7-8m apart, keeping minimal slack in the system
- follower tied to the Alpine butterfly unclips the QuickDraws, passes his knot and clips them back to the rope (a bit like an inversed via ferrata..) last follower collects gear.
- when first follower arrives at the belay, uses his PAS to secure himself at the belay and unties his butterfly knot

This seems to me like a nice idea, but I'm quite inexperienced to judge the pros and cons of this technique and didn't feel confident enough to convince my partners to follow me on that adventure... What do you think? I'd love your opinion!

[MegaChristabella]

Quality little video, nice and concise

[mikel]

"hmm this isn't like his other videos.... oh this is during Covid quarantine days..."

[rluxon]

Way to fast to read. Should be up long enough to read 3-4 times as creator (you read fast as you wrote the caption)

[kurtiswheeler]

This is a nice topic - quality execution (animations) - poor concept (too much text). In my opinion, either make a video or write a blog. Combining both is a bad idea --> different people read at different rates. Also, you've had to condense the text so much that you lose a lot of context which could be taken care of with quality narration. The narration can also be simultaneous to the interesting animations. I recommend to get or loan a decent microphone and have another try.