Get ready to boost your alpine skills with inexpensive, bite-sized classes based on specific topics. Topics will include practical self rescue, mechanical advantage hauling systems, belay/ rappel transition tricks, descending and rappelling tactics to increase efficiency, especially with larger groups, building and cleaning sport climbing anchors, map and compass navigation, smart phone GPS navigation.
Activity Notes
Sunday Skill Builders: Advanced Knots Sunday March 26 Registration opens Feb 26 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Mazamas Mountaineering Center (SE 43rd and Stark) Mazamas members $25, non-members $35 Recommended experience level: knowledge of basic climbing knots (Fig 8, overhand, clove, water knot, friction hitch, Munter hitch)
Do you have all the standard climbing knots dialed? Great! There are a LOT more fun things to do with a rope, and you?ll learn a bunch of them tonight.
Crafty Rope Tricks we?ll cover may include:
Connecticut tree hitch (pros and cons) Convert Munter to clove One-handed clove (and munter) hitch Auto locking Munter Stone hitch MOFT (Munter Overhand Feed Through) BHK (Big Honkin? Knot) Trucker?s hitch The perfect tarp ridgeline setup Flemish bend Snap bowline Double-strand Clove hitch Best practices using tubular webbing for anchors Fix a rope with the Y hang Fix a rope with a bunny ears figure 8 Figure 9 " Cowboy" figure 8 Adjust clove hitch with carabiner Brake knot for glacier travel Super Munter Bowline on a bight in a sling Bowline on a bight through your harness Daisychaining a rope
Gear needed: harness, a few locking and snapgate carabiners. You don't need to have all of this gear, we can share. This will be "ground school", so no helmet or rock shoes are needed.
The links above go to some articles, most from my website, Alpinesavvy.com. If you make time to watch them before class, your time will be much more effective, hint hint. Feel free to practice at home if you like.
Look forward to seeing you, hope you can make it!
John
