by Edd
I’ve wanted to learn rescue techniques for a long while and with a day off, and having nipped to the shops for Rob2’s beers, the deal was done.
We went for a dangle in Horseshoe Quarry starting from trying to haul Rob on the rope with nothing and progressing through counterbalancing and introducing more and more pulleys and all that jazz. With Rob weighing 90+ kg and me weighing 60- kg there was a lot of jazz.
We finished with Rob doing a mid-rope rescue past a re-belay. Suspending from 20m up from Rob’s groin was unnerving. Bizarrely suspending my 90kg ballast whilst doing the same was fine*.
Rob2’s talking about running evening midweek rescue practices at Mark Wright’s tower. I’m certainly interested in getting more practice – anyone else?
*Rob may have pulled himself up a little when I released his Croll to save time
2 responses so far ↓
1 Chris Play // Jan 20, 2010 at 11:16 pm
I’d be up for some more. Been to the tower with Henry and learnt how to midrope rescue and haul and whatnot but a refresh is always nice! Also im keen for caving again after being such a hermit over christmas with revision and the like.
2 Tom 1 // Jan 22, 2010 at 11:29 am
I’d be up for a bit of rescue practice.
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