Ok.... Just wanted to survey folks and see what methods/solutions everybody has come up with to carry a cordelette... somebody has to have the "trick" no muss, no fuss way!

Doubled, redoubled, then tied into an overhand figure 8. If it is too long, I add a twist to the 8.
It is about the size of a plastic soda bottle that way and takes ~10 seconds to do and less to undo.

Cargo Pockets in your pants. Great for route topos, cliff bars and P&S cameras too.

I recently did Steck-Salathe, the offwidth monster with all that crap in my pockets and did not find it a hinderance.

I have been climbing for 45 years and have never carried a cordelette.

When I carry mine, I coil it around my hand then wrap the remaining loop around the coil a few times and thread it through an individual strand of the coil and clip it. This pic might show it better.

A dingus with 2 cordelettes Submitted By: Crossing on Sep 20, 2012

Basically I coil it just like you'd butterfly coil a rope...except much smaller obviously.

Take it from a double to a triple loop, hold both ends, twist several times, bend at the halfway point and it'll twist about its own axis. Rack on a biner.

I do what crossing described... start at the ends/knot wrap it loosely around my hand (flat with fingers spread) to make a ball the size of a small nerf football, when there's about 2' left to go, i do a couple wraps perpendicular to the first wraps, then tuck the tail through a few strands from each side of the first wraps and hang it from the tail loop. It's quick easy and secure, you don't have to fight to get a bunch of strands on one biner. When you need it, pop the tail free and drop the rest and it uncoils itself.

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Thanks for the input.... When i carry i have been doing the "ball and hang" method just was wondering if I was missing something!

I've only done what I always thought was the standard way as seen in luebben's book. I wasn't aware people did it any other way.

The only difference is my coils are sloppier in the field and clean when I put it away.

knots are fine as long as there is rope in the system ....

the DMM video is very misunderstood

Grosso Modo The DMM video shows that you should never tie your dyneema slings together using a knot. I've never seen anyone do this. Usually, dyneema slings are sewn together and I haven't seen dyneema slings sold without these ''sewn attachements''.

Cordelette on the other hand, is frequently tied together with a knot. (e.g. double fisherman's)


In the picture, the sling has an overhand used to equalized both strands of the sling. It's not used to tie the sling together. You can clearly see the ''sewn part in the picture''.

Don't know if this makes sense, but in a nutshell the video is apples and the picture is oranges.