Hi all,
We are planning a trip out to the bugs in august and I'm not sure what rope choice to go with!
We are planning on getting on some of the classics like the becky-choudinard but we are also perhaps going to get on some of the harder routes, which we wil need to aid parts of.
Therefore I was thinking about climbing on a single 9.8mm so that the second can jumar on it, and also use a 7.8-8.2mm half rope as a tag line/ back up/haul line.
That will work fine for the hard climbing (i think?) but I'm wondering about the easier objectives? where we will want to do long pitches and move together over sections. having a 60m rope in someones pack will be heavy and having it trailing as a tag line could potentially be very anoying!
Ideally we would just have a very lightweight tagline for these but as most of the decsents involve abseiing I dont think this would be that efficiant.
would it be worth lugging another half rope up to apple bee to make set?
Any other tips or information would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers all!
Post edited at 03:21