Private Introduction to Rope Team Travel

Activity Notes

NOTE: Weather make up date: Wed, Feb 20th, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

This is an activity to teach skills to an established climb team for a particular Mazama climb. If you are interested in an Introduction to Rope Team Travel, you're welcome to join us, but also please contact the leader.

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Introduction to Rope Team Travel

Location: Mt. Tabor

This activity is designed to teach a participant how to be an effective rope team member that would be navigating, and protecting snow slopes in the alpine. This activity will teach you clip through protection/pickets, how to clean snow pickets, but not how to place pickets. It does NOT cover "Glacier Travel" related topics (e.g. crevasse rescue, ascending a rope).

Prerequisites Skills/Knowledge: be able to put on a harness, have prior knowledge and experience with moderate snow slope crampons/axe techniques including self-belay, and self-arrest.

Gear required: harness, ice axe, leash for axe, gloves, two (2) locking carabiners.

Activity prospectus:

• overview of rope team travel
• related skills: crampons / axe / self-arrest
• harness up
• rope: numbers / spacing / divide the rope / tying-in
• quick-belay: secure, and fast
• introduction to pickets: slings, racking, cleaning
• clipping through protection
• team communication
• moving together: minding the rope slack
• "reset" gathers everyone at an anchor
• "running-belay" puts it all together
• team practice: ascending, traversing, descending slopes