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When you're cleaning anchors on a sport route (hanging), what's your safety setup? Do you have a sling attached to you with a locking biner to anchor into the anchors with.? Or do you use quick draws? Do you hang on one safety or two?

I use 2 daisies and lockers. Does that mean I can't climb with Team Safety anymore?

I always use one sling with a locker AND a quickdraw. I'm always super paranoid when I'm cleaning a route so I like to have two points of contact and triple check all of my knots and stuff.

Two slings girth hitched to my harness and clipped into the anchors. I'll only use draws if I forget the slings.

one daisy chain with a locker. I attach it to one bolt and I use one of the draws on the anchor to attach to my daisy as redundency.

i also will use the rope tied to a locker attached to a belay loop trick to hold the rope if the draws are still on. an extra level of security i guess. i haven't lowered with it since that girl decked a few years back when she attached it to gear loop accidentally. but maybe i will start doing that again. i will just double check that i am in my belay loop.

dhoyne wrote:Two slings girth hitched to my harness and clipped into the anchors. I'll only use draws if I forget the slings.

I do the same. I've also started rapping down instead of lowering.

I just use 2 draws. Should I use a sling instead?

I like using the daisies (girth hitched to my belay loop) because I can adjust the length for my comfort, depending on the route/anchors. I never take them off my harness so I can never forget them. I feel much safer using locking biners, so using draws wouldn't give me warm fuzzies. Cleaning the anchors and then rapelling - which I always try to do as opposed to lowering - is the most dangerous part of climbing in my mind and I don't think you can be too careful.

If you do use daisies, make sure you understand not to connect to 2 loops!

I use a sling attached to one of the anchors with a locker. Before untying the rope, I feed a byte through the rings/chain and then tie a figure 8 with it. This gets attached via a locker to my belay loop. At this point, I then untie my knot and pull the end of the rope through and retie back into my harness where I had untied it. I then undo the locker and untie the figure 8 on a byte and give the slack back to my belayer. Once I have double checked my knot and weighted it, I then undo my sling.

By doing this, I am never off the rope. There is always rope passing from the belayer through the anchors to me.

It might take a little more time but I like having the added security of always being tied in.

GWG

28 slings and a Master Lock joining two locking biners.