ORIGINAL: GregH
ORIGINAL: Cougar Mag
Using sticks or steps, who here carries a hangon strapped to their back, hangs it, and then when taking it down is able to carry it back down on their back? Just curious, thinking of selling my new climber, buying a Lone Wolf Assault with LW sticks with the thought of carrying it on my back going up, and carrying it on my back as I go down. Quick and quiet as long as its safe.
Never carry your hang-on up or down on your back. All I use are hang-ons, but I carry them up or down with a strap around ONE of my shoulders.
Although this is the way I've always done it, since 1988 when I bought my first stand, it was impressed upon me as being the correct way
when a good friend died while carrying one up on his back.
While climbing with the stand strapped to his back, a tree step pulled out, causing him to fall. He hit the ground on his rump and wrapped his head backwards over the stand, where it grips the tree (the V), and snapped his neck!
By carrying it only over one shoulder, you can toss it aside or hopefully, just break an arm. Not kill yourself should you fall.
Take care.
No comments on the safety aspects of this??!! I'm surprised.
