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Using a safety line is a great practice and gives your rope redundancy, which is good since one of the primary risks with TRS is your rope cutting on an edge. On top of that, you also can easily transition to rappel, which eliminates another common source of accidents. The main critique of this syst

Grigri is the most versatile and will be super-reliable. Some devices are better for certain niches (e.g. the Neox pays out slack more smoothly for sport + gym climbing, the Trango Vergo has less drag for TRS, etc.) but in terms of an all-around device that is very good at almost everything it’s har

A birdie is like a worse grigri by most measures. It weighs 1 ounce more, doesnt feed any better, and doesnt have a progressive lowering handle which makes the lower less smooth. It is cheaper but I would not recommend it or the madrock lifeguard. They are inferior to grigri and its other clones Dep

Get the book “On the Line” by Andy Kirkpatrick. Every device has upsides, drawbacks, and failure mechanisms and that book is as close as there is to a comprehensive guide to TRS. That book unpacks all of those and also describes how to pair them in the way that makes them least likely to interact wi

Andy Kirkpatrick’s book “On the Line” is worth the $35 if you’re serious about getting into TRS—it’s about as comprehensive of a source as there is. It unpacks all the types of devices, their strengths, and how they fail so you can best mitigate those risks. He’s also really big on understanding pri

Trango vergo is SO MUCH BETTER than the grigri IMO. If i had to use a device other than that, I would go for and ATC pilot or something similar

Black diamond Pilot is my favorite, along with the trango Vergo. Highly recommend trying each out if you get the chance!

Trango vergo is better than grigri. Fight me.

The device you need for the ability to rappel is called a trango vergo, Madrock (hard to find), or a petzl gri gri +. Make sure you get large enough rope (9mm or bigger usually) to fit the specs. I run a trango vergo on a small bridge, then a longer bridge to a longhorn agile knot. Basically running

I think they meant lead solo based on the devices they showed. If we're talking TRS my setup of choice is Trango Vergo over CT Roll N Lock. Pretty similar to yours actually