Rappelling for Beginners: easiest redundant anchor.

Quick, easy, strong, lightweight, redundant, equalized, inexpensive anchor! If you are new to rappelling or climbing or learning how to rappel, have trees at the top of the cliffs you use, and want a sweet anchor--check this out.

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[jagerman]

Quick, simple anchor. Thanks for that

[ymcaclimb]

My favorite anchor system for top roping. Good for lead belayer too, nice and quick to setup. “Cordalette” with cord, “webalette” with webbing.

[BackcountryPilgrim]

I'm just getting started with this stuff thanks!

[AMC-eqjr]

Smooth sailing. Thanks for the motivation.

[MattWeddis]

This is a great video. A friend and I are just starting to look into rappelling and this was very helpful. What length and thickness of webbing were you using here (or would you recommend)?

[troydowling]

Just subscribed so don't know if you have done this, but am having trouble with terms and what they refer to. Could you do a episode on that?

[Alejandrvarsay]

I'm not a climber HOWEVER, I would recommend having some length of fabric made into a short "tube or sleeve" to put the rope or webbing trough, and protect them from friccion damage against whatever surface they press against (trees, rocks etc).

It would be a Pitty to ruin some good webbing when a cheap piece of cloth can protect it... specially becaisie the anchor web/ rope are in fixed positions.

[absolutevegan]

For redundancy, can one use two locking carabiners to connect to the anchor/rappel?

[sfarrell]

Please help to increase safety factor by using rappel rings. If a carabiner side loads with webbing it can fail. Carabiners are designed for rope and not webbing. Where you clip onto your anchor you may make the loop a little
Longer and attach the rappel ring with a girth hitch (put loop through the donut open the loop and pull the rappel ring through it, then dress the webbing at the top and tighten). Cheaper than carabiners and stronger.

[mbigbqp]

What if someone was a jerk and cut all your ropes at the tree while you were climbing? Would they need an axe to cut through those ropes?

[andrewhikesandclimbs]

Great anchor but how do you get your rope down behind you if you have tied a figure eight at the top?

[jacquespoirier]

Very nice set-up, but you forgot a "safety first" element in your rapelling system... where is your 3rd. hand in case you lose control of your break hand while going down the cliff ???

[DBZSeanzie]

Why do you only wrap your anchor around the tree once?

[TheNfields]

Would there be any extension upon failure of one tree anchor?

[jockcherokee]

Nice & simple. KISS (Keep It Simple, I'm Stupid).

[MrJtheC]

What I mean is, is the term redundant some kind of rappelling terminology? Because I thought the word meant useless and not required. (I'm a layman)

[jamessiberrysaunders]

How many feet and what size webbing do you use?

[joefran]

Heard of two climbers tying into a strap around a tree that was sitting out in the elements. I'm not a climber but would know better then what was left out. They both died after the strap broke and fell.

[MinilordFTW]

Ummm, aren’t knots in a line a 50% reduction of break strength?

[cre]

It seems to me that you would only have 4, 000lbs of strength per anchor, not 8, 000 as stated in the video. Each tree only has one loop actually going around it.