by Kevin29035 » Tue Jan 12, 2016 8:46 pm
To expand on my own thoughts, you could realistically use from one piece of gear to protect a move, but I wouldn't bother with it without a harness - that's also your means of racking your gear.
I've 'rope-soloed' once or twice, essentially starting with the end of the rope tied into a bomb proof multi-directional anchor, then feeding the rope by me with a clove hitch, plugging gear on the way to kepe the potential fall pendulum small. Works best imo on ground within your limit but in atrocious conditions that would otherwise preclude going solo.
The issue with this set up is you either must return the way your climbed (which is fine on pinnacles), or construct an anchor once at the top, abseil down, strip the gear and jug/jumar back to your top anchor. Time consuming and almost really no better than soloing happily or having a partner to hand.