Clinic
Seattle Basic Climbing Refresher Clinic - Rescue Methods Familiarization - Mountaineers Seattle Program Center
Become familiar with climbing rescue methods and practice simplified versions of belay, lower, and rescue systems. Learn about the various roles of rescue team members.
Contacts
- Sun, Feb 24, 2019
- Seattle Climbing Committee
- Climbing
- Adults
- Moderate
- 12 (12 capacity)
- 4 (4 capacity)
- Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 6:00 AM
- Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 6:00 PM
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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
More information on the Seattle Basic Refresher Clinics series [link]
This Seattle Basic Refresher Clinic - Rescue Methods Familiarization - introduces rescue systems (belay, lower, raise) and provides practice using simplified versions of these systems. Learn the different roles of each member of a rescue team.
Skills to be practiced:
- Rescue Team roles
- Knots used in rescue
- Belay using tandem prusiks
- Lower using a munter
- Raise using z-pulley
Meet at Seattle Mountaineers Friction Mountain at 6PM
Required Equipment
Standard alpine climbing gear.
- harness
- slings
- carabiners
- cordelette
- hemet
- z-pulley
- prusik loops