"" If climbing roped, a 50m rope is more than sufficient.""
Just a word of caution. The normal SW face descent off Torment involves 4 to 8 30m rappels. If you are going to bail off this route this is one of the few places to do so.
"If climbing roped, a 50m rope is more than sufficient.""
To add to the above comment - we made many rope-stretching rappels with a 60m rope, including rapping to grassy ledges on south side (steep snow bypass), and through cat-scratch gully descent. I think anything less than 60m rope is ill-advised.
Thanks for the additional information. We did not take that route on the descent, so had no first-hand beta to offer. Hopefully this will help others who do this route in the future avoid a potentially challenging and dangerous situation.
Buckaroo - Sep 4, 2012 4:32 pm - Hasn't voted
Rope Length"" If climbing roped, a 50m rope is more than sufficient.""
Just a word of caution. The normal SW face descent off Torment involves 4 to 8 30m rappels. If you are going to bail off this route this is one of the few places to do so.
olsztynr - Jul 16, 2023 2:05 pm - Hasn't voted
Rope length"If climbing roped, a 50m rope is more than sufficient.""
To add to the above comment - we made many rope-stretching rappels with a 60m rope, including rapping to grassy ledges on south side (steep snow bypass), and through cat-scratch gully descent. I think anything less than 60m rope is ill-advised.
Steve Larson - Jul 16, 2023 9:29 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Rope lengthThanks for the additional information. We did not take that route on the descent, so had no first-hand beta to offer. Hopefully this will help others who do this route in the future avoid a potentially challenging and dangerous situation.