Can You Climb Without a Belay Device? 3 Game-Changing Techniques
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Should we happen to have lost our belay device while still needing to climb, we may want to employ an auto-locking hitch to help with belays from the top or pack hauls or the like. The Garda, Lorenzi, and Auto-Locking Münter hitches are all options. The full video goes deep on how to create them, how we might use them, and some pros and cons that come with each.
You can purchase the carabiners I used for these various systems by following these links:
For twin wire gates on the Garda hitch, I use the Camp Dyon
For a large HMS carabiner, I typically use the Petzl William
For a medium HMS carabiner, I like the DMM Phantom HMS
For the small carabiner needed to allow an auto-locking Münter to convert to lower, I use the DMM Phantom "D"
Follow this link to the full video and accompanying blog post.