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Summary: Learn how to remove anchors in lead and top rope climbing in these free rock and mountain climbing videos.
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Bill Killough-Hill Bill Killough-Hill has been teaching rock climbing at Zoar Outdoor since 1995. He is an AMGA certified top rope site manager and keeps fit climbing with stude... read more
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Questions & AnswersHi! I am Bill with Zoar Outdoor here on behalf of expertvillage.com. We are here today at Chapel Ledges in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the trustees of the reservations property. In this series, we are going to be talking about anchors for top rope rock climbing. When you are all set and done with your anchor, you want to take it out; hopefully, it comes out just as easily as it went in. Pull the trigger and out it comes, or slide the stopper right back up the way it went in. Sometimes it is a little trickier than that; and you might want a nut tool, real basic piece of steel that you can use to push nuts back up the way they went in. It also has a hook on the end. If you could not quite reach the trigger to your cam, you could reach in with the nut tool, pull the trigger with that and that will get it out of there. Another trick to think about is if you happen to be at the edge of the cliff or in the middle of the cliff and you don’t want to drop your $65 cam, if you can clip it to yourself first on a sling around your shoulder and then take it out and if you drop it is still attached to me. You do not want to be dropping your expensive gear down the cliff. That is one way to avoid that. So taking it out hopefully it goes easily but if it does not be patient, work it back up the way it went in, try to use the rock, think about what it wants to do. Look for the bigger space to take it out of and it will go easily.
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