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Rescue Course in RRG
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 2:51 am
by Josephine
I know a lot of people have asked about rescue courses, and this looks like a great opportunity.
Fox Mountain Guides Rescue Course
Join AMGA Certified Rock Guide Karsten Delap for a day of rescue techniques. The Fox Mountain Guides Rescue Course looks at skills every climber that ties into a rope should know; basic competency in risk management, problem avoidance and self rescue skills. This course emphasizes reducing the risks in the first place, teaching new, clever systems and techniques to reduce the chance of ever having to use the rescue skills you will learn on the course.
Topics Covered:
* Problem avoidance; reducing the risks in the first place
* Basic rescue knots, hitches and tie offs
* Load transfers; the building blocks for all rope rescue techniques
* Rescuing and assisting the second; raises, lowers and counterbalanced lowers
* SIMPLE raising systems, detailed look at the physics behind raising systems, mechanical advantage raises
* and assisted raises (2:1, 2:1 assisted, 3:1, 3:1 assisted)
* Ascending a fixed and counterbalanced rope
* Using self locking Plaquete Devices in self rescue (Petzl Reverso, B52, ATC Guide, etc)
* Weighted transitions (rappelling multiple pitches with an unconscious climber)
* Effective knot passes on rappels and lowers
for more info:
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Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 8:58 am
by the lurkist
There needs to be a wilderness BLS course. Cliffside backboarding, c spine control, basic airway techniques, immobilization/packaging, improvised backboarding, splinting, CPR (you are fucked if it comes to that, but whatever)...
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 11:49 am
by p0bray01
I just wish it wasn't on a monday....
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 1:04 pm
by Josephine
the lurkist wrote:There needs to be a wilderness BLS course. Cliffside backboarding, c spine control, basic airway techniques, immobilization/packaging, improvised backboarding, splinting, CPR (you are fucked if it comes to that, but whatever)...
that sounds WAY too advanced for me. i'd rather have clinics on making the trails more medi-vac friendly so the professionals won't have so much trouble getting to someone who needs this!
maybe even a fund raiser for the 3 counties to buy them a treadmill so they might even show up ready to hike t the cliff
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 1:29 pm
by anticlmber
the lurkist wrote:There needs to be a wilderness BLS course. Cliffside backboarding, c spine control, basic airway techniques, immobilization/packaging, improvised backboarding, splinting, CPR (you are fucked if it comes to that, but whatever)...
hey lurk, patience, now that i'm done with school and waiting for nclex to be over that is my next plan.
i've already spoken with another fella who is more than willing to help out as he is certed to cert cpr and we want to do this same stuff you mentioned; c-spine, cpr, and how to assist in a situation. patience.
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 2:20 pm
by Clevis Hitch
How do you get in on a EMT course in Lexington. Who should I ask about it?
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 10:58 pm
by Der Revir
clevis i thought you had the answers for everything.......fox mountain guides are great i took an AMGA (SPI) and it was great the knowledge those guys have is pretty profound. You can take a WFR class through eku. To be an EMT you have to go through a lot of hours of training but I would call the fire department and talk to them about it though.
Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 4:14 pm
by anticlmber
Clevis Hitch wrote:How do you get in on a EMT course in Lexington. Who should I ask about it?
that same piece of technology that you use for all the dumb shit.
Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 4:24 pm
by charlie
Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 6:04 pm
by dustonian
anticlmber wrote:Clevis Hitch wrote:How do you get in on a EMT course in Lexington. Who should I ask about it?
that same piece of technology that you use for all the dumb shit.
damn that's funny