Fox Mountain Guides and Climbing School

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)

Course Prerequisites:

Applicants must have taken our Foundation Level courses or can top rope 5.6 climbs, rappel and have experience placing artificial gear and building anchors.

Number on course:       Maximum of 6:1 client to instructor ratio
Course length:              One day
Course dates:               Check Out Our Course Schedule Here
Cost*:

We have again this year kept the Single Pitch Lead Course price lower as an incentive for climbers to take this program
4+: $120 per person (four+ to one instructor, two days)
3: $150 per person (three to one instructor, two days)
2: $185 per person (two to one instructor, two days)
1: $260 per person (one to one instructor, two days)

*The costs are based on the actual amount of participants on the course. courses normally run at 4+ people but in the event the courses run with less people the costs will be as shown above. Participants that do not wish to take the course with low numbers (because of the cost) can change their course to another date. The upside to lower numbers is of course a more personal course.

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