Zipline Baggage handler

So down by the river is where we want to be but one of the bummers that go with that is huffing our stuff in and out of the Gorge. There are cactus strewn ledges and two ladder runs. A pedestrian should be on his guard. A sherpa should be doubly concerned. Too dangerous. No fun (at least that's what the kids told me).

So I found a straight shot from up top to the big rock at our camp site and ran about 130 ft of 1/4" aircraft cable from point to point.  I then connected a boat ratchet up top and used paracord connected to a pulley on the wire to transport stuff up and down.  Stuff going down is a matter of gravity and friction braking with the paracord.  Going up I use a drill attached to the small ratchet 3/4" gear nut to power the ascent. My pulley is a petzl zipline trolley with black diamond carabiners. I used a walmart purchased come along at the bottom, 3/8" rawl 3" climbing bolts and 2 fixe climbing anchors on top and bottom.  So far so good.  I am a bit leery of working with rope (fingers getting caught, etc).  Nonetheless, it is a step toward making our time here more relaxing and less toilsome.