Bar some `first time on rock after a great winter` warm ups with some soloing of a Mod and a Diff (not recorded), I set up a rigging rope for newer (and some older) members of York Mountaineering Club to climb the above route - technically bottom roping.
Three bomber pieces of gear in sandstone that is inherently flaky. Two linked with a clove hitched sling (maximising length) to two carabinas, an overhand to equalise and a separate bomber hex.
Took a while to faff getting the weight and length right (and readjusted it after the first climber).
Sat up top while 3 climbed the route. Came down to leave the gear seated after that. Two more climbed and then I did.
Awful, desperate, gearless sandbag of a route made easier with a top/bottom rope.
Some of the older SPA members were quite happy with the system I`d rigged. In fact very few comments st all and folk were getting on with climbing and being social which was a good sign!
Not technically instructing but practicing. Overall an hour to rig, have 6 climbers on it, derig. So I`ll add it to my outdoor `instructor` log :-) First rig!
Spent the evening with folk from York Mountaineering Club whizzing up including the gruesomely slow rigging in the first place.
Evening session.
Total 3h
