Questions about single rope technique and gear for blimbers

摘要

TCIA last fall published the Best Practices for Single Rope Technique (SRT) in Arboriculture manual, and an article about SRT ran in the November issue of TCI Magazine. While both answered many questions about SRT climbing, some people had other questions about SRT that the manual didn't really get into. TCI Magazine posed some of those same questions to Donny Coffey, CTSP, the lead author of the SRT manual. Following here are his answers. TCI: Why would someone consider using the SRT, especially ifthey are doing just fine with their DdRT system? Coffey: Here's a short explanation to begin with: SRT is considered a static rope system in which the rope is anchored to the tree and the climber moves along the rope. In a traditional DdRT system, the rope is dynamic, meaning the rope is in constant movement over branches and branch unions, creating friction. This friction is an "energy leak" for the climber. Energy leaks are parts of a climbing method that expend a high concentration of energy comparedto the actual vertical/horizontal gain accomplished.