Stowing pickets

[CraigA]

So what is the easiest way to stow a picket when your climbing second on a route where your placing a running belay? I've tried to come up with a way of doing it that doesn't require me to take off my backpack, but so far the best I can come up with still requires taking one shoulder out of the packstrap. Is this what you do? Do you have some clever setup that allows you to reach up and slide the picket into its slot in your pack? Is there a pack that enables this better than others?

 

Just wondering.

 

Craig

[sketchfest]

Craig,

I seem to remember a thread not all that long ago asking this very question, you might try a quick search.

[ivan]

if yer 6'7" and using the shorter pickets, you can clip 'em to your harness w/o 'em getting in the way

 

packs w/ gear loops are sweet too

[freeclimb9]

a shoulder-length sling clipped at the top and bottom of the picket lets you throw it over your shoulder like a quiver.

[Necronomicon]

Clip biner to picket one hole past canter hole. Clip biner to harness. Enjoy picket jabbbing into the back of your knee. Transfer picket to shoulder sling.

[fern]

thread the picket upward through a gear loop and clip the top hole off so it doesn't drop back down. If you nest them right you can get 3 through one loop.

[salbrecher]

Not going to join the pickets today Fern?

[mattp]

I do as suggested above, clipping a biner somewhere above the middle hole, but instead of putting them on my harness I usually clip them to my pack strap.

[chelle]

mattp said:

I do as suggested above, clipping a biner somewhere above the middle hole, but instead of putting them on my harness I usually clip them to my pack strap.

 

I've clipped to my shoulder strap and to the harness. Both work. Make sure you actually clip it to your shoulder strap though. I lost a locker down the chute on Shucksan a couple years ago 'cause I thought I clipped it to my shoulder strap but actually got my waist belt. It fell down the route when I took my pack off...

[plexus]

ehmmic said:

mattp said:

I do as suggested above, clipping a biner somewhere above the middle hole, but instead of putting them on my harness I usually clip them to my pack strap.

 

I've clipped to my shoulder strap and to the harness. Both work. Make sure you actually clip it to your shoulder strap though. I lost a locker down the chute on Shucksan a couple years ago 'cause I thought I clipped it to my shoulder strap but actually got my waist belt. It fell down the route when I took my pack off...

 

BOOTY CALL!!!

[Dru]

if you have a wand/ski pocket on the side, slip it thru the compression strap on the side and down into the wand pocket. i can do it without taking the pack off but i had to practice.

 

better yet, climb with your pack open slightly, with the top pocket stuffed down into the body of the pocket, and just stick the picket down into body of the pack.

[iain]

Dru said:better yet, climb with your pack open slightly

BOOTY CALL!

[Dru]

only if you fall or tip upside down. dont fall.

[stinkyclimber]

Dru said:

only if you fall or tip upside down. dont fall.

But Dru, what if you put your pack down on the pile of rope at a belay, then the pack gets jettisoned off when you feed rope through to the leader? Not that I am saying that YOU would do that. All I know is that I like when others do that. Booty.

[fern]

only if you fall or tip upside down. dont fall.

 

if you aren't going to fall why carry them at all?

[Dru]

the question referred to a SECONDER. ie on a TOP ROPE. hard to fall upside down while seconding on picket-protected snow climbs. im certain you could do it if you try though!

[CraigA]

Dru said:

the question referred to a SECONDER. ie on a TOP ROPE. hard to fall upside down while seconding on picket-protected snow climbs. im certain you could do it if you try though!