Crevasse Rescue Leader Recert

Activity Notes

Crevasse rescue re-certification session for Climb Leaders and LD candidates.

ACTIVITY NOTES

Location: Timberline overflow parking lot

Climb Leader re-cert education is intended to be a structured learning environment, for someone who is already largely educated in the topic, for them to re-gain some lost knowledge, and get some general hands-on practice time with the known skills. CR are perishable skills, and need to be literally practiced for someone to maintain their skills.

Please let John Sterbis (sterbisj@gmail.com) know how you would rate yourself:

I feel confident in my ability to do crevasse rescue, and I could teach it<br> I feel confident in my ability to do crevasse rescue, but I want to spend the entire session practicing it<br> I am not feeling so confident in my ability to do crevasse rescue<br> I am really rusty on crevasse rescue

If none of the above fits, let John know your specific situation.  We would like to make sure everyone is covered, no matter where they are, and want to arrange teams so that everyone can get as much out of this as possible.

Besides doing a rope team rescue of another rope team, we’ll focus the rest of our time practicing what the ICS class has focused on, which may be a change for many of us.  While what we all learned works and is effective, ICS has moved to what AMGA has embraced, which is to start with a drop C off of the “back” end (rescue coils end) of the rope off of the backup knot for the friction knot onto which the load of the fallen climber was transferred.  If more mechanical advantage is needed, add it to that drop C.  This tended to be a scenario that people were taught sort of as an afterthought in skill builders and all of the ICS classes we taught prior to 2022, but now is the main scenario with no talk of load releasable friction hitches, nor much practice/discussion of hauling the person up, directly, on the side of the rope on which they are hanging.  

The prospectus contains material to review prior to the session.  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XsHhm2UTNpT5U6aXiPiH3gOTtHvZwQCz?usp=drive_link