Preview to Between Pitching and Free Solo Climbing, Part I: Thinking About Bringing a Rope
I think it's a false choice that we can either "climb quickly but with high risk by soloing" or "climb slowly but with low risk by using a rope" when we are on terrain that is well within our abilities. This is a start of a short series on some techniques that allow us to use a rope to mitigate risk on moderate terrain without burning through time the way fully-pitched climbing sometimes demands. Our first decision is if we should bring a rope along at all or if we should just "scramble" a route. The full video shares how I think about that decision.
Follow this link to the full video and accompanying blog post.