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
Contacts
Peter Tran
Primary Leader
- Wed, Apr 15, 2020
- Seattle Climbing
- Climbing
- Adults
- For Beginners (Getting Started Series)
- 12 (12 capacity)
- 7 (7 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
Summit Room 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
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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