SCC Benefit Single Pitch Rescue Course, NC, 26th September 2010
Hosted by: Adam Fox
The event will start on: 26 Sep 10
And will end on: 27 Sep 10
1-888-284-8433 info@foxmountainguides.com
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This program is a benefit for the Southeastern Climbers Coalition. It is a discounted program, at just $100 with 100% going to the SCC! Support your local climbing organizations and take part in this Course!
Intermediate Level Course
The Single Pitch Rescue Course looks at skills every climber that ties into a rope should know; basic competency in risk management, problem avoidance and self rescue skills. This course emphasizes reducing the risks in the first place, teaching new, clever systems and techniques to reduce the chance of ever having to use the rescue skills you will learn on the course.
We have distilled the information taught on previous courses, and looked in to more realistic situations for self rescue. We will teach you the most efficient systems and won't flood you with over complicated useless systems. All these skills are useful in everyday climbing and it’s amazing how much speed and efficiency is gained from having these skills “dialed”. Self rescue is a topic that all climbers should be skilled in for themselves and the people they climb with.
"Let's face it, unless you take a course no one ever practices rescue skills, we just go climbing, that's why I took the self rescue program with Fox Mountain Guides".-Tom Gallo
Topics Covered:
- Problem avoidance; reducing the risks in the first place
- Basic rescue knots, hitches and tie offs
- Load transfers; the building blocks for all rope rescue techniques
- Rescuing and assisting the second; raises, lowers and counterbalanced lowers
- SIMPLE raising systems, detailed look at the physics behind raising systems, mechanical advantage raises and assisted raises (2:1, 2:1 assisted, 3:1, 3:1 assisted)
- Ascending a fixed and counterbalanced rope
- Using self locking Plaquete Devices in self rescue (Petzl Reverso, B52, ATC Guide, etc)
To go to the Main Single Pitch Rescue Course Information Page Click Here


