What's a good size mountaineering rope.
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What size rope is typical for 2-3 man glacier travel, like on Rainier/Denali, non-technical or non-mixed climbing. To simplify, what's the smallest diameter rope? I was thinking 9.1 30m. I don't want to use my 10.2 60m. To much extra weight. Thanks! |
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Well the impact on the rope is not supposed to be very large in a crevasse fall. And usually there's not many exposed edges in the terrain that might cut the rope. So thinner is supposed to be OK. |
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Great answer. Thanks Ken. Ill definitely consider a crevasse rescue course. |
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I use a 30m half rope... speciaifcally the sterling duetto 8.4 |
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I prefer to keep a rope at 4 people or less, so it is the 60m rope I have been using these days. I personally wouldn't use a 70m for a glacier travel and I guess it could be a good choice for guiding. I have attended a glacier travel course in a mountaineering school, Canmore an it was 70m they used. |
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My 2 cents....depends on what the specific route is like after the glacier travel and many ways to skin the cat, but for a team of 3 I have cut a 50m 8.5 into 20m and 30m sections. Easy to distribute the weight and adds a certain redundancy. |
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why would you ever use a 60 or 70m for glacial travel? thats overkill and a lot of unneccessary weight. |
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Superkick - one reason could be for something like say Liberty Ridge where a team may pitch it out after the glacier travel. Depends on what and how you intend to climb after the glacier approach. |
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pitching out liberty ridge is a bad idea. If you need to pitch out lib ridge its above your abilities. |