Community Practice Session - Mountaineers Seattle Program Center

The focus of this session will be on reinforcing proper rappel technique and overcoming poor rappelling technique. The skills we will be targeting are: loading the device facing the anchor, loading the device facing down canyon, the pre-rappel check, rappel posture, hand placement, rappel commands, adding body friction, adding device friction pre-rappel, adding and removing friction mid-rappel, switch-hand braking, dominant hand bracing, hands-free lock off, sympathetic movement on rappel, and fireman belaying. If there is time we will move into ascending, knot-passing and any other requests. 

Technical Practice Sessions are a peer learning environment. No formal training is provided, and participants must have the pre-requisite training to participate. Participants are encouraged to bring books or materials to reference.

We will meet at the North Wall at the Seattle Mountaineers Program Center at 1:00 and go until 4:00 RAIN OR SHINE. Hopefully it will rain and we can practice in wet conditions to mimic canyon conditions.