The Rappel Friction Setup Everyone Should Know
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Icy climbing ropes. Thin ropes. Extra weight on the rappel. There are multiple reasons why we might want to add additional friction into our rappel (abseil) system. Here is one option for when we are rappelling on a plaquette (tube-style with guide mode option) device. The full video offers two more options.
Key gear in this video includes my preferred DMM Pivot belay/rappel device.