The rope is the essential safety tool for climbers. Knowing how to roll it up correctly is essential for safety when you put it on your shoulder or over your backpack, so that it doesn't get in your way or get hooked somewhere. If the rope is wrapped well it will be less likely that polyps or knots will form when you unroll it.
Steps
Step 1. Spin the rope
You have to slide it between your hands and pile it into a pile. During this operation, check by touch and sight that the rope is intact, free of tears and fraying.
Leave the garment you start with outside the stack so you don't have to look for it
Step 2. Once spun, grab both ends in your hand
Hang the garments for 2-3 meters.
Step 3. Hold the doubled rope with both hands, spread your arms
Step 4. Pull the resulting length behind your neck
This is the first couple of turns, during the whole operation you have to worry about making them all the same length.
Step 5. Without moving your hands along the string (to keep the length of the coils regular), with your right you grab the rope doubled between your left hand and the pile on the ground
Step 6. Spread your arms out and put the second pair of coils behind your neck
Now you can hold the rope and adjust the coils by grabbing them in the loop they form. Be careful not to let the two free ends slip from the right!
Step 7. Now with your left hand grab the rope between the right and the pile on the ground
Bring these coils to the back of your neck as well.
Step 8. Continue alternating left and right along the entire length of the string
Step 9. Take the coils off your shoulders, being careful to keep them tidy
Step 10. Hold the rope in the middle, where it rested on your neck so to speak
Hang the rope.
Step 11. Grab the rope above the two ends (the 2-3 meters you left at the beginning)
Roll the rope around the coils, under your hand, tightening well.
Step 12. Pass the rope between the coils, where you hold the skein with your hand
Make a buttonhole with the free string.
Step 13. Pull the two ends through the buttonhole at the top of the skein
Now pulling the two free ends together tighten.
Advice
- If you practice sport climbing on a cliff or in the gym, you can avoid wrapping the rope in the manner described and throwing it in a bag after tying one end to it. If you practice mountaineering, however, it is essential that it be wrapped to perfection.
- If, as you should have done, you have marked the middle on the rope, you can start wrapping it from here.
- You can use the loose ends of the skein to tie it on your shoulders like a backpack.
