Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 22:30:24 -0800
From: Bryan Palmintier
To: Stanford Alpine Club
Subject: [SAC] Belay Escape, etc Practice, Fri 7-10pm

Hi SAC folks,

 At long last here are the details on the Belay Escape practice
session this Friday:

Belay Escape  Practice Session
Friday March 10
7-10pm
Stanford Climbing Gym

A Belay Escape is the first step if something goes wrong while you are
belaying someone when climbing. And the pieces of a belay escape are
fantastic tools in their own right to have in your bag of tricks for
both emergency and non-emergency climbing situations. If there is time
we will also practice fixed rope assention (prussiking) with various
knots.

Please RSVP by Thur noon if you are thinking of coming by replying to
this e-mail and include:
  - Your name
  - The chance of you making it:
       Definitely coming
       Dude, I'm there
       I'm still working on my weekend plans, so maybe
       It sounds cool, I hope I can make it, but there is this problem set...
  - Whether or not you are a SAC member and if so if you are an instructor
  - Can you bring a cordelette or some webbing plus a couple of slings
and a couple of locking caribiners?
  - If you already know how do do belay escapes, but want to come (a)
to practice or (b) to help teach.

At this point I am hoping to make the practice session open to anyone
who is intersted in coming, but if there are more people interested in
coming than we can have in the gym then I will limit the numbers and
give preference (in order) to: SAC instructors, SAC members, Stanford
Outdoors folks, everyone else.

The plan: the main purpose is for everyone to have a chance to
practice escaping a belay, that is to tie off a loaded rope in a
releaseable way and then get out of the system so that you can go for
help (or start a self-rescue). We will start with a demostration by
the instructors, then work on specific skills, and then break up for
folks to practice the whole belay escape sequence. If time permits,
after everyone has practiced their belay escapes, we will talk about
other basic rescue skills such as prussiking, load releasing hitches,
passing knots, etc.


Questions and RSVPs, just hit reply.

-Bryan



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