WCR - Small Party Rescue - Mountaineers Seattle Program Center

• Review these slides as they cover many of the tools we will learn throughout the module. There are many extra tools in this slide deck that we won't cover in this course but could be useful in certain situations.
• Slide 33 gives you an overview of what we will do in this course: belay is the rope involved in the crevasse fall; main is the new rope that you will introduce as part of the rescue, to be used to lower the attendant down to the subject and to raise both to safety.
• Slide 44 covers tandem rappels.
• Slides 34-40 cover lowering. We won't use the monster munter or two ATCs in this course since we won't be lowering an elephant, but these are neat tools for your toolbox. Pay special attention to slide 38, it's the core of this course.
• Slides 42-43 cover attendant tie-in.

Some tips:

• Practice the klemheist-to-munter-mule-overhand load releasing hitch that we have seen in class (our version of slide 38) in various orientations.
• Every time I'm transferring loads, I find it useful to ask myself: (1) where's the load? (2) where do I want the load to go? and (3) before transferring the load, where's the backup?

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