Grigri

Grigris are more versatile, especially for multipitch and self-rescue situations. Grigris can belay directly off the anchors, be used for a haul, rappel, or ascend a rope. The CT Clickup can’t belay off anchors and can’t as easily ascend a rope if you rappel past anchors or need to rescue a leader.

This question comes up twice a year, every year, probably based on course schedules. Climbing gear, especially belay devices, are pretty much optimized. Edelrid spent lots of time and money with people with decades of experience designing climbing gear and was able to make the pinch, which by popula

Edelrid Bruce for the mega jul 2, any small offset D for the Grigri. You do not want to use an HMS. Petzl suggests the sm'd

Petzl has an article on using a grigri for ascending a rope. Obviously you need the correct training to do so safely. If you just mean approved use based on context and not application, then sure. They have other devices designed for “rope access”. https://www.petzl.com/INT/en/Sport/Ascending-a-rope

Grigri just needs one carabiner. Lots of people buy weirdo anticrossload carabiners, but honestly the petzl SmD does very well and avoids the usual issues of hms shaped carabiners with the grigri. Can be purchased from any reputable dealer liks your local gym, REI, etc. At some point in the future y

As suggested above, ground anchors will likely be 1. Easier to rig, and 2. Stronger and less prone to stretching. The ASAP is rated for use on an incline per petzl's documentation, but it's a pricy bit of kit for one DIY job. Progress capture on a camping assisted belay device like a grigri or bette

Try on harnesses and hang in them if they’ll let you. Buy what’s most comfortable, they’re like shoes and nobody can tell you what’s going to feel good for you. Get a Grigri and locking carabiner (I’d recommend a Petzl SMD, but any locking carabiner will work).

belay gloves / assisted braking device (grigri, pilot, giga jul) and you will be totally fine also consider thickness of rope vs size of atc. some are super wide and thinner ropes fly through (BD ATC), some are really skinny (e.g. Petzl reverso) and thick ropes will be almost jammed in there in your

I'm not a rope climber either but used to climb for an arborist Grigri are locking/assisted breaking devices, not fall arrest devices, we always had to back them up with something, at least a prusik knot or use a formal fall arrestor like the ASAP, kong backup, something with teeth. It's really impo

A HMS (Halbmastwurfsicherung or 'Munter Hitch Carabiner') carabiner is just a pear shaped carabiner that's typically larger wider and round compared to regular D shaped carabiner. Think Petzl Attache vs Petzl Sm'd. It's designed to facilitate easier belay with a munter hitch as it needs the space an