Self Rescue Class

Risk Awareness and Mitigation
Escape a belay
Ascending and Rappelling

Hours

What’s This All About?

The Self Rescue seminar is designed to teach you a variety of safety and self-rescue techniques to use in the event of the unexpected in a multi-pitch scenario. The class focuses on technical skills as well as risk assessment and mitigation while remaining calm in a stressful environment.

All classes are taught by a qualified instructor certified by the American Mountain Guiding Association (AMGA).

What You’ll Learn:

Escape a belay
Raising and lowering systems
Counterbalance descent and lowering
Ascending
Rappelling

$99 with any form of paid entry!

Registration is required. Participants must be at least 13 years old. Minors must first have a waiver signed by a parent or guardian.

This class has a minimum participant requirement. The minimum participant requirements must be met within 24 hrs prior to class date. If you are the only one signed up for the class, the class may get rescheduled.

Please Bring Along

1 Belay Device, 2 Locking Carabiners, 6 Non-Locking Carabiners, 2 Prusik Loops, 1 24in Sling, 1 48in Sling, and 2 Cordelettes.

*If you do not have all of the required gear it can be purchased from our gear shop*

FAQ

What do we mean by self-rescue? What are these mysterious skills I need to know?

Usually it means securing the climber, removing yourself from belay duty, and retreating to the ground. Getting to the ground might involve a skill you already know- simply lowering the climber. The core skill is a ‘load transfer’ using some variation of a Prusik hitch and a slip knot to get a weighted rope from one anchor to another and back again.

Prerequisite skills and gear:

previous experience belaying from above on multi-pitch climbs
experience rappelling

What sort of scenario might call for these skills?

Mostly these skills are useful for accidents in multi-pitch terrain:

- You’re at the top of the 4th pitch with an injured climber, but you have two ropes. You might be able to quickly lower the hurt climber almost ~400′ to the ground if you know how to pass the joining knot.
- You need to rappel with an incapacitated climber. Do you know how to put both climbers on one device? How will you anchor in at a hanging belay?
- Your rappel rope gets stuck on the pull, and you need to ascend to the previous rap anchor

In this class I will review/teach/practice a bunch of knots:

overhand, overhand on-a-bight, overhand as a stopper (barrel knot)
figure 8, figure 8 on-a-bight
clove hitch
Munter hitch
girth hitch
Prusik hitch
klemheist hitch
auto-block
leg wrap
mule knot (with a belay device and with a Munter hitch)

‘bonus’ knots if there is time/interest:

Schedule

Every Second Wednsday of the Month
6:00pm – 9:00pm

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Self Rescue Class

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