Hey I am Miranda with REI.
Rope management is an important part of climbing.
So today we're gonna talk about a couple different ways
that I like to coil my rope.
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So I normally coil my rope using
a butterfly coil over my shoulders.
So here I have my gym rope flaked out on the ground,
and with a rope this short,
I'll normally start with both ends,
but you can always just start from
the midpoint or you can start
from one end of the rope.
What I'm gonna do is,
I'm gonna take both ends of this rope,
in one hand,
and pull out about an arms span of rope here,
and drop that over my shoulder.
And then basically I'm just gonna do that,
again until I reach the end of the rope.
All right cool, so now I have about
an arms span of rope left.
So what I'm gonna do is take these coils off of my shoulder.
And I'm gonna wrap this up the way that I normally
do for storing my ropes.
So I'm gonna hold the coils in one hand here,
and then take this loose end of rope,
and wrap it around the coil.
And then we're gonna keep going,
keeping that first wrap on the bottom,
kinda just locks it in the place,
keeps it snug.
We're gonna get to about here,
and I'm gonna go ahead
and pass a bight of rope,
through here, through the coils,
and then take the end,
which has my marked midpoint,
and pass that through the bight.
There you go.
So this is a really neat way,
a clean way to store your rope,
and you can always just clip a carabiner through here,
if you're hanging your rope up.
This is generally how I will store my rope.
This is a modified version of the Butterfly coil.
So now I'm gonna show you another version
of coiling your rope,
that I like to use for carrying my from crag to crag,
because it's really easy to store it on my pack.
So what I've done here,
is I've started from one end of the rope,
and I've coiled it over my shoulder,
just like before.
And I've gotten to the end,
where I have about an arms span of rope left.
So just like before, I'm gonna take this off my shoulder.
Just like before, we'll line them up.
And I'm gonna to take this loose end of rope,
and I'm gonna make a bight.
And I'm just gonna hold that in my hand, here,
so it lies with the coils,
if I can get it to lie flat.
And then we'll take the rope again,
and we're gonna wrap it around both coils,
going towards this bight here.
Once you get to the point where you have
just a little bit of rope left,
I'm gonna go ahead and feed that strand
of rope through the loop that I made,
and then go ahead and snug it down.
The reason I like this, especially for storing on my pack,
is that I can lay it across the top of my pack,
and then strap it down on either side,
and then it's really easy if you're going,
again, from wall-to-wall or crag to crag,
to just pull this out and then have quick access
to the end of the rope to start flaking it out.
This is another version of carrying your rope,
and I like to use this on my pack.
So the last coil that I'm gonna show you is,
a backpack coil.
So what I've done here is,
I've started with both ends of the rope together,
and I've pulled out two arms lengths of rope,
like this, one and two,
and then I left those down,
and then I finished coiling the rest
of the rope over my shoulders,
till I got to the end.
So then what I wanna do is,
take these coils off my shoulder.
And I'm gonna wrap the rope up,
just like I showed you,
when I store my rope.
So I'll take both ends together,
wrap it around the middle,
stay on top of that first wrap,
to lock it in place.
So once you get to a point where you still have
more than an arms span of rope left,
you're gonna take these two ends,
and you're gonna past them through the coil,
pass a bight through, like this,
and then the two loose ends of the rope
will go through the bight.
Like this.
So now you have a coil that's really similar
to the first coil that I showed you,
but we have these two loose ends of rope.
Now from here I'm gonna go ahead
and put this on like a backpack,
take the two loose ends,
cross them in front,
and around my back,
so they actually go around the rope,
and then with these ends,
you can tie just an overhand knot.
There you have it, that's the backpack coil.
There are a lot of different ways to coil a rope,
so these are just my three, that I use most often.
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We'll see you at the crag.
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