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Good to hear about those rescues Leon, real world trumps the 'what if'. With the obstacles in the way of lowering an SRT victim, a rescuer may well have to climb up to them anyway.

Right! I've often thought about that too... On some forum someone posed the question of how many people had actually had to do a rescue, self or otherwise, the instance was pretty low if I remember.

I go once around the trunk, have a triple-lock steel biner clipped to the up leg. I tie an alpine B'fly about 1' up the up leg, a lowering rope is fisherman tied to that which then goes off to a fig 8 on a sling attached to an adjacent tree. (the other day it was a fencepost) If it all goes...