WMCR - Field Trip 1 - Protecting your follower

Field trip: Winter Mountaineering & Advanced Crevasse Rescue (aka Intermediate Glacier Travel) - Mixed Cohort

WMCR - Field Trip 1 - Protecting your follower - Mountaineers Seattle Program Center

Review trip planning. Ground school in basement, covering solo rescue, mechanical advantage systems, and rappel to ascend transitions

  • Tue, Apr 14, 2020
  • Seattle Climbing
  • Climbing
  • Adults
  • For Beginners (Getting Started Series)

Cascade A/B at 6PM. We will move to the basement at 630pm

This session will review the trip planning homework assigned at the end of Session 1: Kick off. We will then move to "ground" school, where we'll learn about more advanced mechanical advantage systems and how to build them. We will also practice converting from a rappel to ascension system

Route/Place

Mountaineers Seattle Program Center


Roster
Required Equipment

Required Equipment

  • Harness
  • Helmets
  • 3 locking carabiners
  • 6 non locking carabiners
  • 2 hero loops
  • pulleys
  • Guide Style rappel device
  • Texas Prusiks
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