Ultralight Rigging & Rescue
June 9 - June 13
$500.00Instructors: Rich Carlson and Shannon Long
Ultralight Rigging & Rescue provides intensive 40-hour high-angle rescue training in skills required by mountain rescue teams, rangers and individuals who desire a high level of emergency preparedness in the backcountry..
Covers NFPA 1006 Chapter 5 (Rope Rescue) Operations and Technician level skills, similar to Rope Rescue Technician I/II, but utilizing minimal and ultralight gear, along with improvised systems.
Skills Taught
- Equipment selection, use, inspection and maintenance
- Knotcraft
- Anchors
- Patient packaging
- Mechanical advantage systems
- Belay techniques
- Lowering systems
- Rappelling
- Knot passing through rappels
- Ascending
- Raising and lowering systems; system safety factors
- Litter rigging and tending
- Assisted rappels and pick-offs