Secure Your Belay: Mule Overhand Tie-Off Technique
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There are times we want to tie off a belay to keep our climber temporarily safe as we go hands free. Here is one method that may be easier to use if the spine of our belay carabiner is hard to see given the position of our device, the rope, or ourselves. It's one method as a preview to a video with four different methods for tying off a tube-style plaquette device along with how those methods compare across certain scenarios.
Key gear in this video includes my preferred DMM Pivot belay/rappel device.