Trying to use Pantin

[John Paul Sanborn]

Brandon, do you put a keychain carabiner under the friction hitch to make it advance under the ascender?

it makes the ascender the only tieing, but it males long ascents easier.

 

[TreeJunkie]

usually i use a vt or schwaibish w/ micropulley under neath, this guy was used to using a split tail and blakes, so we experement w/ putting the handle underneath the blakes and using it to advance the hitch as well as giving something easy to hang onto