Return to Infrared
Sunday afternoon, went to Urca for some climbing in Morro da Urca (mountain next to Sugarloaf). Lots of climbs looked wet, so ended up returning to the climb I did with Ju & Dave (called Infravermelho), that looked a bit drier. This time I lead it!! Felt great. Turned around before completing the last pitch which looked pretty soaked (as I remembered Dave's ordeal getting through the totally soaked slab to the top...)
Some friends were climbing the route next to mine, called Arco-Iris, and then traversed to my route to rappel down.
Was neat to see the full moon rise up over the water, and then do a few rappels in headlamp light. We miscalculated slightly the last rappel, we were already super close to the base but had to down climb a bit (rope too short!!) was a weird feeling to "let go" of the rappel and just slide off the end of the rope. Was fine though.
Have been using a marchand knot to back-up my rappels...
1 comment:
Excellent pics, JK - you're getting out way more than any of us, for sure (unless pulling plastic indoors counts, which it doesn't).
Glad to hear you're backing up raps. I use the same knot I think you're using to rap (I've always called it an autoblock): wrap your cord (or webbing) around the rope as many times as you'd like, and clip the two ends of your cord loop together on your leg loop.
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