Belay question

[JackY]

Are there any potential problems with belaying off an in-line eight?

 

For example: Leader tops-out, walk back to a tree, sling the tree, clip the rope through the slings, walks back to the cliff edge, grab both strands and tie an in-line eight, belay from the resulting loop with a munter or reverso etc.

 

Thanks,

Jack

 

[Drederek]

I've never had a problem and I use a similar method to get to the edge when climbing with the wife. I usually just walk around the tree or clip into an anchor then head back to the edge and put a figure eight in the rope and clip it to my locking belay biner. I suppose if it was offline or if you had too big a loop on top and got pulled over the edge you could be in a spot.

[G-spotter]

If the belay is off the rope, it will stretch when loaded. If the cliff is a long way from the tree, the stretch could put you over the edge.