great idea. I had to get up on a barn roof (4/12, I think) this past winter to fix a heater vent that had been knocked over by snow. Yup, there was about 4" of melting snow all over the thing. I pulled the snow off as I made my way up to the vent and there was no way I could walk on the flatter portions between the raised ribs, too slippery. However, I did find that I could walk on the raised ribs and used the screw heads (as MSD suggests) to increase my traction. Unfortunately, I would have needed a couple of hundred feet of rope to do what you did and I didn't have that with me.
I was just thinking, though, that a good addition to the rope idea would be a ring something like used on a horse picket line. This way, you could move the ring up and down the rope as you needed to secure yourself at various points.
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