The Monkeytail and Limbloop are our ideas for the short personal safety line that backs up your climbing rope or replaces it when you move the rope to a new branch or share it with a fellow climber. Commercial climbers use rope, rope with a steel cable core, or even steel chain for this purpose. But in recreational climbing where we can pare down weight and bulk, we like nylon webbing instead. It rivals the strength of rope yet tucks away neatly. The reinforced sewn eyes in these straps are neat, strong, reliable, and easy to clip into with a carabiner. You'll use your Monkeytail or Limbloop EVERY time you climb!

The Monkeytail is a lanyard that is adjustable, versatile, lightweight and strong.

It’s a strap of 5500 lbs test parachute webbing that adjusts from nine feet down to five feet using a forged steel three-bar slide. We stitch a reinforced eye at one end and add a sliding parachute harness triangle at the other end. This forged steel triangle is rated at 9,000 lbs breaking load.

You can put the steel triangle into your saddle Screw Link before leaving the ground and keep an autolocking carabiner on the other end of the strap, ready to use. Stuff this rig into the Open Climbing Bucket on your saddle and it’s out of your way until you want it.

The Monkeytail is the perfect length for lobbing over near branches to set temporary and back-up safety, or for work positioning. It can be used in a basket configuration (around a branch and clipped to your saddle) or in a choker configuration (around a branch and clipped onto itself). For overnight safety, the Monkeytail is a more comfortable lifeline than a rope.

Wt 11 oz