How to Foot Lock climb a tree

One of the original fundamental access techniques, foot locking is an old school technique before we had Rope Wrenches and the like, but it s such a valuable technique to have in your skills within your mental toolbox. This video explains how to foot lock up the tree by choking your access line with an alpine butterfly at the top and then installing your double rope system onto the access line using your foot locking, klemheist prusik. Read the full blog post at Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 1:31 The setup Marlinspike knot 2:41 Tieing the foot locking prusik 4:00 How to foot lock 5:43 Transfering to the DdRT system 11:00 Derigging the system 11:51 Retrieving the system from the ground 12:31 Tieing a poorman s pantin 13:25 Conclusion , reecoil, arb, arborist, treeclimbing, srt