Community Practice Session - Mountaineers Seattle Program Center

This practice session will be at the Program Center from 10am-2pm. We have Goodman C/B reserved upstairs but final space for the practice session is TBD.

This practice session is specifically for intermediate level skills.  Intermediate practice sessions are a bit less structured than basic level practice sessions and participants are free to practice whatever they'd like. We'll meet at 10am, do introductions, and discuss if there are specific skills participants would like to practice. Below are a list of skills taught in the intermediate course for reference:

Rigging

• Concept Overview: Rope Systems (Single/Double/Twin)
• Closing a releasable system under tension
• Rigging and Managing Rebelays
• Twin Static Rope Systems
• Twin Releasable Rope Systems
• Joining Ropes for Retrieval
• Isolating a Core Shot w/Safe Clip in Point
• Stacked Overhand
• Alpine Butterfly
• Speed Butterfly
• Bottom Anchors (Releasable from Below)
• Top Belays
• Guided Rappels
• MMO
• Italian 8
• 3:1 tensioning
• “Conveyor Belt” for moving a stuck person on rappel
• Using Doubled Ended Rope Bags

Anchors

• Cairn Anchors

Personal Movement

• Double Rope: Ascending, Rappelling, Conversion, Passing Knots
• Ascending a Steep Traverse Line

General Rescue

• Concept: Canyon Rescue Hierarchy
• Concept: Rescue Rope

Self Rescue

• Rapid Conversion Ascending System
• Safety Backup w/VT Prusik

Indirect Rescue

• Convert to a Lower: Static Block or Stuck Releasable Block
• Convert to a Haul: 
• Blocked Static System
• Releasable System
• Lowering a Knot Past an Anchor
• Rope Cutting: Single Strand w/Petzl Basic
• Rope Cutting: Double Strand w/VT Prusik

Direct Rescue

• Capable Subject: Simple assist w/rope grab & footloop
• Incapable Subject: Pickoff Strap
• Fixing Pickoff Strap Failure - Counterbalance Pickoff

Mechanical Advantage

• Fundamentals of Mechanical Advantage