Recovery Tools + Safety

Recovery tools and safety gear are the unglamorous half of recovery, and the half that keeps people whole.

A damper is a weighted blanket you drape over a rope or winch line while it is under tension. If the line snaps, the damper drives it into the ground instead of letting it whip. It costs less than dinner and it is the cheapest piece of safety equipment you can own — use one every single time. ARB, Yankum Ropes and RotoPax all make one.

Gloves keep steel splinters and rope burn off your hands, and a bag — MAXTRAX carry bags, the Deadman Bodybag, the DMOS Rally Bag — keeps it all together, because gear you cannot find in the dark is not gear. Complete setups live in recovery kits + bundles.