Jumar rigging for efficient ascending of a fixed line?

I have been trying to find the most safe and efficient way to use two Jumars with two footloops to ascend vertical fixed lines but I have been having trouble getting the sling lengths rights.

Anyone have any good suggestions for how to rig a system like this?

Cheyne,

How about linking your Blog Supertopo TR over to this site?

Cheers

John

I just got a great laugh from that video. "You just alternate back and forth like you're running up the rock..." Yeah sure, its really that easy. That guy is amazing.

If you have never tried it before, lower your expectation after watching that video.

^^^
Chris does make it easy. I finally gave up on the two ascender jogger system and went to the 1 ascender and gri-gri froggy system.

Pete Zabrok has a great page on this rig.

I believe the jogger system is more efficient if you are proficient, but I've not enough need to jug to be proficient.

Evan

With a little practice jugging is very easy. Do a few walls and you will have it dialed in. Use an adjustable daisy on your waist daisy makes adjusting in the fly easy. I use a old style daisy on my other clamp. Pointing your feet slightly down helps to keep your foot in the ladder.

As an "armchair wall rat", I shiver when I read about jugged lines getting sawed through on semi-sharp edges. Then I saw this guy jogging on the line and I understood. The little bit of jugging I do, I do as smoothly as I possibly can.

If anyone knows anything about jugging a line it's ChrisMac. I think I remember reading the story when Tommy C climbed two El Cap routes in under 24 hrs with Chris as support. Tommy was begging Chris to slow down so it would give him more time to rest.

Pete has some really good stuff in the Big Wall section.

Rob, iirc, Tommy's wife was on the Nose with him and CMac jugged free rider. I think there's vid in one of the Dosages to this effect.

I say this because Beth is about as fast a second as I've seen. Check out footage in Progression with her carrying a pack on Magic Mushroom and flying up the rock.

Page, use an adjustable daisy on your top jug, that way you can change length on the fly, like shorten up when you are getting steep and lengthen when on a slab...