COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Flash Foxy’s Intro to Rescue Skills course helps you prepare for those inevitable mishaps at the crag, and how to extricate you and your climbing partners from them so you don’t have to call for a rescue. We’ll cover basic methods of ascending a rope to help a climber, assisting a climber through a crux from both above or below, taking over a belay from someone else, and simple rappel techniques. We'll use scenarios to explore improvised solutions and best practices, instead of just teaching a few cookie-cutter drills that might not apply in the real world, and you’ll leave with a solid set of tools to handle most situations that could happen at a crag.

This is a skills intensive course, and we’ll focus on learning fundamentals on the ground, then practicing those skills in a low-risk vertical setting with review and feedback from our instructors. Most of our course time will be spent working on skills with very little rock climbing, so come prepared to spend time hanging in your harness!

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

*Have a working knowledge of key equipment, including climbing shoes, harnesses, helmets, chalk, climbing rope, slings/cordelette, carabiners, and belay devices, and friction cords.

*Practice basic rescue skills when belaying from below, including belay takeovers, ascending (including improvised tools), assisting a stuck climber, and lowering with another climber in the system, with coaching and feedback from instructors.

*Practice rescue skills when belaying from above, including assisting and hauling a stuck climber.

*Be proficient at descending and rappelling in the single pitch setting.

*Be knowledgeable about rescue jargon.

*Connect with other climbers interested in single pitch climbing.

CLIMBER REQUIREMENTS:

Must know how to belay someone on top rope. Some experience top-roping indoors or outdoors is required.

INSTRUCTORS:

TBD

In partnership with Out in the Wild

https://www.outinthewild.org/