The guidebooks always indicate trad or sport, and I'm not quite off of the top rope yet. So guidebooks have left me thinking, "Yeah, but it can it be top roped?"
I've been reading plenty. I've been out with guides. I've collected a modest amount of gear. I now have just enough information, and experience to go out and make a splash.
Yeah, definitely not climbing unless it's with people who know what they're doing.
It's just toproping. You can toprope a sport climb or toprope a trad climb, but it still won't qualify as climbing trad or sport unless you are leading. The designation is about how you protect yourself on lead. So if you are not leading, the designation is kind of irrelevant. I don't think people call it "Trad anchor" or "Sport anchor"
What the hell is slingshot toproping? Is that versus seconding, because the rope goes up and then back to the ground, like a slingshot?
Hauling a big ego up a route adds at least a full grade.
steep4me wrote:
What the hell is slingshot toproping? Is that versus seconding, because the rope goes up and then back to the ground, like a slingshot?
In one of Luebben's books, he describes it as "In slingshot top-roping, the rope runs from the belayer up to the top anchors and then back down to the climber." Rock Climbing: Mastering Basic Skills, Craig Leubben, pg.129.
That sounds like a regional term, kinda like duck-butt being the SoiLL term for gumby. Top roping is top roping, the rope is anchored at the top, it doesn't matter what kind of anchor it is - its still just top roping. Oh and don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with top roping - its the way to start climbing and a way explore harder climbing. In fact, it is the future of hard - 5.16+ - rock climbing and will soon have all the glory as lead climbing.
