Therrin

The traverse was set up with a 3/4" rope, then to back me up, I was being belayed from each side with 7/16" ropes. We were camped out there at the Falls for a week as part of our Rescue Instructor training course.
They aren't overly savvy about the idea of hauling eachother anywhere if you can get yourself there by some means =)
During the days that we did high angle rescue techniques, we'd take turns being the "patient", and people hauled us around....
The tyrolean was actually pretty fun.
Since I'm young, and a real go-getter, I decided not to insist on being first, so I said "I'll go second"... and the whole thing came to a bit of a stand still. Two of the guys mentioned that they had kids and it got quiet. Then I said, "okay, well I could go first if you want". They all said Okay! and sprung into action. LOL. It was perfectly safe, but it was still pretty funny how it all worked out. The tyro line takes significant tension on both ends, and can be dangerous if not rigged just propperly.
The fall would have been about 80 to 90 foot, but the backups would catch at about 15 foot.

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