Rescue Training - Litter Packaging and Transport

[weber]

As part of an advanced high-angle rope rescue training session at Muir this next Saturday (Oct. 23), we will be spending about 90 minutes on packaging a patient onto a spine board and into a stokes litter and doing a low-angle transport. Anyone who is interested is invited. No charge. Meet in the overflow parking lot below the main parking lot at Muir Valley on Saturday at 9:30 AM sharp.

Also, anyone interested in participating in advanced high-angle raise/lower operations may join as the training session continues at 10 AM at the new rescue training wall at Muir near the lower parking lot. We will wrap it up about 4 PM. Bring helmet, harness, and gloves. If you wish to participate in this advanced session, please PM or email me to reserve a spot.


Rick Weber

[weber]

A little clarification: The litter packaging and transport will be the first 90 minutes or less. For those who are only interested in this part of the training, you can get it out of the way and go climbing late morning.

Rick

[woodchuck008]

Sooo, was there a good turnout for the litter package practice , etc. today? If I was 450 miles closer I'd have come to attend.

[weber]

Yes. About ten. We will be doing more of this type of training later with a lot more notice. We were eager to try out a new training area that lived up to our hopes of being almost perfect for demonstrating darned near ever type of high-angle situation a rescuer might encounter. At one location we can do raise-lowers over slab, vertical, and overhanging rock with ledges, roofs, and hard break-overs. And, it is a perfect place for a 120-foot long Kootenay highline with a 120-center drop (English or Norwegian Reeve).