Thanks for the inspiration! My first impression is that the whole workflow involves a lot of specific steps to make the kids as uninvolved into critical actions as possible, but that's fine. The risk which was not clear to me how to mitigate completely is when you start leading the next pitch and Jonny belays you: if you have a fall before your first express, you would fall into the redirect carabiner which on the video was really close to a belay device (and this potentially has a risk of deactivating it if belay device is pulled to the top in direction of your redirect carabiner). All in all, cool video!

Jason, I love how you are always open to feedback, it's one of the reasons I enjoy your channel. (Also find you very knowledgeable and easily understood.)

Rarely do I comment in videos on KZfaq, but just wanted to say that I really enjoy your videos. Very informative and clear. Thank you from New Zealand!

I can’t thank you enough for this video - it is so comprehensive and well written. I have foreseen being the more experienced climber in my circle, taking less experienced friends out more frequently than projecting my own goals. That is one reason I am taking an SPI course this summer - peace of mind for myself and the friends/family that I am taking out. The skill board deal comes at a great time as well! Thanks.

Man, just started this video and I’m so stoked. Thanks for covering this. Anything related to parents and how we can do more with the kiddos, love this. I’m going to do it anyway, way better to be safe :)

This is bad ass. I'll be taking my kids on their first "serious" outdoor climbing trip this summer, just belaying from top on long single-pitch sport routes. Such a great way to instill confidence, focus and problem solving skills - those are a couple of lucky kids to have a dad that treats them with this much respect and trust!

Thanks! Alot of useful information. I have one concern: Just in Case you take a fall and you said it your self: the whole belay system will be yanked up. This could potentially hurt the children, so i would propose to add another cam / securing point on the bottom, that keeps the system in place, in case it gets pulled up. Best regards

I really appreciate the content you create! Thank you!!

This is such a great tutorial. It’s been helpful for me thinking about taking two fully grown but inexperienced adults up a multi pitch!

Thanks for this video. Mine are still a bit too small for this, but I'm saving it in a playlist for later.

Can you show how you started the climb, how you were belayed from the floor?

I really appreciate this content. What you are describing is literally my idea of a perfect day with my kids… in a few years . The are .75 and 6…

Great video! You are great with your kids. I have been wanting to take my kids on some easy multi pitch in Asheville but felt uneasy about the process!

couldn't love this video more!

Jason, love the channel. I've learned so much! Thank you! I especially appreciate the skills directed toward climbing with kids. The fixed point belay with the grigri is a brilliant idea for climbing with the little ones. I was wondering, is there a way to build a trad anchor for a similar setup? Maybe a second separate bidirectional anchor to hang the grigri from? I appreciate all the hard work! Thanks!

This is fantastic.

so amazing i learn so lot from this video, i found new trick here

Snake in a hold?!?! New fear unlocked.

Hello, thx for the video it is extremely useful. Just wanted to know, at the last part of video your elder son went down with rappel but I didn t see any break system, is that ok to do so? Or maybe I missed something? Thank you

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Rappelling on a gri gri was the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done

That was so dangerous rappelling like that! I was pulling my son up when we were on both ends of the rope with each on the gri gri! I would not do that ever again

Outside, inside, underneath!

In the unlikely event that you fall on lead, wouldn't Johnny's hands get burned on the rope before the gri gri locked up? Great content.

Nice video. Question on the rappel: If you were rapelling off a tree for example and didn't have the rappel rings to potentially stop the knot while a heavier and much lighter climber simul-rappel on the grigri's - can you trust that the reverso/atc of the person waiting to rappel will prevent any slippage? Or do you have another safety measure? Thanks.

I've found doing the Grigri rappel puts twist in the rope, at least with two ropes tied together. Any tips?

@summitseekersexperience, can you speak some on direct belaying on a GriGri? I think I heard you state that this is meant as more of an emergency belay situation, since you should be doing pretty basic/easy stuff, but I think highlighting that that usecase is out of recommended spec might be good. The risk balance in this scenario and not having a tiny person bely on an ATC/Munter is understandable. Also. . . not that I should be telling you anything. . . but I think a fixed-point should be limited to about 20cm of travel. So if we're avoiding using the primary anchor as the fixed point, would a banshee be a better option here?

Very interesting; thanks for this video- a couple of things I need to triple check in how we Germans usually do it. Firstly I need to check what exactly a firemans belay is and why it is okay for Johnny to not use a third hand- Secondly it kinda freaks me out to have someone rappel on the non-blocked strand- if anything were to happen to the heavier persons strand... not only would that person be hitting the deck, but also the lighter person on the non-blocked strand. Or is this only okay because Johnny is also effectively blocking both strands with the standard atc extended rappel method?

Do you use a ground anchor for the belay device for the first pitch?

if your kid hold on to the dead end of the rope would that still propel them up?

How can I make a belay station for practice

Hey Jason. What route/area did you guys climb?

At 14:45 could your daughter not clip the carabineer to herself first, then remove the clove hitch, to avoid any risk of dropping it?

I have no idea how to persuade my own child to bouldering not to mention panel or rock...how did you do it :) ?

You daughter abseils using a gri-gri with no backup? No third hand? Did I miss something?

Dont take your kids multipitching based on something you saw in a youtube video.