Clinic
Seattle Basic Climbing Refresher Clinic - Crevasse Rescue - Mountaineers Seattle Program Center
Review and Practice your crevasse rescue skills - Placeholder date & time
- Mon, Dec 17, 2018
- Seattle Climbing Committee
- Climbing
- Basic Alpine
- Adults
- Easy
- 12 (12 capacity)
- 4 (4 capacity)
- Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 2:18 PM
- Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 5:00 PM
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
- iCal Google
The Seattle Basic Refresher Clinics offer Basic Alpine Climbing graduates, and non-Mountaineer members with equivalent training and experience, the opportunity to review the skills and techniques they learned in the course. Cost per clinic: $0
This Seattle Basic Refresher Clinic - Crevasse Rescue - covers the rescue systems used to extract a climber who has fallen into a crevasse while on a Basic glacier climb with two or more rope teams.
Skills to be practiced:
- Knots used on glacier climbs
- Prusiking up a climbing rope
- Pulley rescue systems
- Safe setup and execution of a rescue system
Meet in basement of the Seattle Mountaineers Building at 6PM (or as soon as you can arrive).
Required Equipment
- Glacier gear, including prusiks and glacier pulley
- Ice axe