Over the past month, I've mostly been trying to climb Mt. Hood. The weather has been pretty bad, so I've only made it to the mountain once. The one time Ben and made it to the mountain since our first trip, we climbed about 500 vertical feet and the wind became so bad we turned around. The wind was gusting up to 40 mph and blowing hard snow and ice crystals, driving them into our faces. We decided to scrap that trip and try again later. Unfortunately, we haven't had good enough weather to try again.
I've added another piece of equipment to my single rope ascent/descent system, an ascender. In my previous post about rope climbing, I used a carabiner with a loop of rope in stead of a mechanical ascender. My new ascender makes the system easier to use, more versatile, and much quicker for climbing rope. Here's a picture of my ascender (a Black Diamond nForce Ascender) and my descender (a Petzl Grigri).
And a short video of me using it.
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