Rappelling

For whatever reason I realized I could teach the girls how to rappel from their climbing wall.

For those that don’t know rappelling is a common (and fun) way to descend a climbing route. Obviously the safest and easiest is to walk down, but sometimes you have no choice and must use your ropes to get back to the bottom.

From the top of their wall, I built a rappel point and anchor to have them practice the mechanics. The descent wasn’t much considering it’s only an 8′ wall, but it’s the moves that are most important and must be committed to memory.
Being the quick learners that they are, we decided to make it harder and have them rappel while completely suspended.

Now we need to take it outside and find something a little taller.

– b