Clinic
Seattle Basic Climbing Refresher Clinic - Crevasse Rescue - Mountaineers Seattle Program Center
Review and Practice your crevasse rescue skills, including prusiking
Contacts
David Shema
Primary Leader
- Sun, Mar 3, 2019
- Seattle Climbing
- Climbing
- Basic Alpine
- Adults
- Moderate
- 4 (12 capacity)
- 1 (4 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
Meet in basement of the Seattle Mountaineers Building at 9AM .
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
Learn more about the Basic Refresher Clinic series [link].
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 the rescue systems taught in the Seattle Basic Climbing course (C-Pulley and Z-Pulley)
Route/Place
Roster
Required Equipment
Required Equipment
- Glacier gear, including prusiks and glacier pulleys
- Ice axe (for use simulating anchors)
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