anchor, mechanical advantage system (MAS), highline). Prior to sending your rope across, make sure you survey the area and choose the best placement for your systems (i.e. The crews that made their way to point B can pull the ropes across. Once the line is across, simply connect the needed ropes to the terminal end on your side (point A). These guns will fire a pilot cord from point A to point B and the cord will act as a means to get your ropes from one side to the other. How do you get the rope from point A to point B? There are many different tools on the market. Knowing what you know about anchor forces, it’s easy to see and understand that these anchor points are going to see a lot of stress. In Figure 1 (tensioned highline) you can clearly see the lack of an angle between the anchor points (highline connections). Doing this will, for the most part, distribute the load force equally amongst the anchor points. If you remember, when I wrote about anchor angles and the forces exerted on the anchors, I stressed the importance of keeping the angles you create in your system between 45 and 60 degrees.
When dealing with highlines, there are several drawbacks you must be consciously aware of, the first being the stress put on the anchors and equipment. For the purposes of this article we’re going to focus on a tensioned horizontal highline system. There are variations of these highline systems, like slackline highlines and dual-track highlines, which I’ll discuss in future articles. An example could be a highline spanning from the top of a cliff to the bottom. These highlines span from point A to point B on an angle. The second category will be angled highlines. These highlines are for the most part level and, like all highlines, go from point A to point B. Highlines can be categorized into two categories, the first being horizontal highlines. There are several different ways to construct these systems, but I will focus on one method that I feel works the best and have had success teaching. In this article, I’ll break down that information for you to hopefully show you that with a little thinking and planning tensioned highlines not too difficult. There is a lot more to tensioned highlines than two ropes between two points. Whatever the setting, the need is the same - to get a patient or “victim” from point A to point B safely, effectively, and efficiently (remember the acronym SEE?). Tensioned highlines can be a useful skill in the wilderness and even an urban setting. This month’s article continues our focus on an advanced skill in the world of rope rescue that skill being tensioned highlines.
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