In case of rope walking you described - is the croll still connected? And are both hands above ypur head or one is near the harness. I'm wondering about a scenario when pantin unclips or foot loop slips, and there is no way to put them back. And in this case you can't unweight and release the...

We did try that - but there is zero feet support because its smooth and muddy. Regarding thinking - it wasn't our strongest trait that time :)

Same here with the turning the head. But I couldn't progress by knee bending at all in either direction. This is the spot at its wider part...It has exact oval shape to fit the human body

We had it, but it kept getting unclipped (and its performance wasn't great because of the mud). Also the tiny amount of lifting which was possible to generate wasn't enough to gain some advance on croll

Me and my friend had went on a vertical caving trip and were unable to prusik out of a really narrow and muddy ~4 meters shaft. It was really snug around our bodies, and it was impossible to move hands or legs at all in order to operate the ascenders properly. Also it was really hard to...

For lyme disease there is a prophylaxis threatment in form of a single doxylicine pill taken within 72 hours after a bite. In Israel we take it regularly because of a different tick-borne replacing fever abundant in our dry caves (which I had myself)

Exactly. We will try this today on a small ~10m cliff

yeah thanks, I'll probably use different methods described here as we progress

This specific case does not pose a life threatening situation. Because if a climber below is already on the rope - there is no way the loaded snap gate can unclip. And if he isn't - then in the worst case he is going to "skip" a re-belay and climb towards the next one.

I'm planning to do some very simple caving and canyoning with a 9 years old boy. While he is capable of using a descender and ascenders quite well, I still prefer him to have an additional backup. Is it an acceptable setup to run an additional static rope from his harness through a pulley at...

It was a very experienced instructor. I forgot to mention that I am not from UK (Israel) and the "best practices" may differ here. The instructor mentioned that UK cavers usually use screw gates or maillons. His reasoning for using snap gates were that a bolt in proper rigging is never a single...

Clipping into an anchor or a loop in the rope when I'm at the cliff's edge, before I start absceiling Nope

And for the long cowstail (which I also use for backup when rappelling off cliffs) - should I ise HMS carabiner, which I already have, or a smaller "D" one? I noticed my HMS is very prone to cross-loading, but I'm not sure its an issue im this case

What are "fish hook gated" carabiners? Are the salewa ones I showed previously OK in this sense?

Maybe because you are never relying on a single cowtail (except for a rare occasions). And that rebelay attachment failure is considered too dangerous due to the large slack? Anyway does anyone know if Salewa brand is reputable? They have the cheapest and the lightest screw gates where I live...