Faster rope flaking - over your back

Want to flake your rope in a hurry, like into a backpack, tarp, or rope bag? Here's one good method if you don't have something to clip the rope to.

If you have any sort of high point around, it’s probably going to be faster to clip a carabiner to that, clip the rope through the carabiner, and then pull downward to stack it.

One other benefit: you usually work most of the twists and tangles out of the rope when you do this.

If you have twists in the rope, run the rope through a ATC style belay device on the high point to help remove them.

It's good to have a shirt or jacket with a hood on it, because you might get a little rope burn on your neck if you don't, ouch.

Another technique that's occasionally used: clipping a carabiner to your helmet strap and running the rope through that. It's probably because I'm not very coordinated, but the few times I've tried this, I end up slapping myself in the face with the rope, so that's not my favorite method.   :-)

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