Mountain Rescue Technical Rock Accreditation
The technical manual and associated rope rescue certification will provide your team members with the technical foundational skillset, critical thinking & problems solving skills, along with leadership and management skills to be thoroughly prepared for Mountain Rescue Association Technical rock, scree and snow accreditation.
Associated Courses & Certification: Rope Rescue Level 1 & 2
Mountain Rescue Association Technical Snow Accreditation
Additionally the Alpine Mountain Rescue course will prepare you and your team for the Mountain Rescue Association Technical Snow accreditation with training on snow & ice anchors, steep snow and cornice evacuations, and lightweight, small party rescue techniques. Associated Courses & Certification: Alpine Mountain Rescue & Rope Rescue Technician 1 & 2 Certification
AMGA and Outdoor Education Prep
Our certification courses help prepare students aspiring to take certification or instructor courses in rock or alpine environments with the AMGA or who seek employment at universities or other educational institutions. Our expansive curriculum taught from instructors with decades of experience in rock, ice and snow rescue will provide you with the competence and confidence to succeed in your pursuit of working as a professional rope rescue technician.
Technical Rope Skills for Rock, Snow & Ice
Foundational rope rescue skills to work as a member on a high angle rescue team (HART) or as a professional guide in small groups.
Technical Patient Packaging & Evacuation
Learn how to properly package, manage and evacuate a patient for prolonged, rugged technical evacuations in low angle, high angle and alpine mountain environments to prepare you to work as a mountain rescuer, SAR worker, fire/rescue HART member or as a professional mountain guide.
Leadership, Teamwork and Communication
As a guide, SAR HART tech or outdoor adventurer, this manual and field courses will help develop your leadership, teamwork and site management skills through being immersed in multiple field scenarios and skill stations in the accompanying multi-day courses.
Course curriculum
14 Chapters, with hundreds of illustrations, pictures and diagrams to clearly explain the details and complexity of rope rescue in rock, mountain and canyon environments.
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Introduction/Logistics/Expectations
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Chapter 1: Strategies for Victory
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Chapter 2: Equipment
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Chapter 3: Rope Rescue System Dynamics
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Chapter 4: Knots and Anchor Rigging Overview
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Chapter 4A: Detailed videos for knots and anchors
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Chapter 5: Personal Rope Rescue Skills
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Chapter 6: Technical Skills, Team Competencies
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Chapter 7: Low to Steep Angle Rescue
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Chapter 8: High Angle Rescue: Vertical Operations
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Chapter 9: Advanced Rope work and rigging skills
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Chapter 10: Alpine Mountain Rescue
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Chapter 11: Remote Rescue Techniques
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Appendix A: Medical Skills
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Appendix B: Rope Rescue Checklists
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Level 1 Skills & Knowledge
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Welcome! Getting Started: Important Course Information! Warning! -
Safety, Risk Management & Decision Making Mission Optimization for High Stakes Teams Standard Operating Procedures, Standards, Protocols, & Regulations Team and Personnel Roles & Responsibilities The Rescue Plan Technical Rope Rescue Communications Safety Zone Classifications -
The "Go Suit" Technical Rescue Gear (Personal) Ropes, Webbing & Cord Critical Equipment: Ropes & Lanyards Hardware Critical Equipment Check: Carabiners -
Weight, Forces and Safety Factors Rope System Dynamics Quiz -
Knots Technical Rescue Knots Simple Anchors & Anchor Selection simple loop anchor comparison Multiple Anchor Systems Fixed leg multiple anchor system analysis Anchors and Angles Video Rope and Anchor Dynamics quiz 2 Want More? Check out this CMC podcast: Are bowlines safe enough for rope rescue podcast -
Figure 8 Retrace figure 8 on a bight video demonstration Snap Bowline with Yosemite Tie-Off Simple loop anchor video Tensionless Hitch Anchor Long Tail Double Strand Bowline Video Girth Hitch knot and anchor Basket Hitch Anchors Basket + Anchor Wrap 2 pull 1 anchor Redundant Wrap 2 pull 1 video Redundant double loop anchor Radium Release Hitch Knots3d: Recommended Knot App for Practice Rope and Knot Quiz -
Personal Skill: Rappelling Personal Skill: Belaying Rope Ascension Techniques -
Overview of Rope Lowering Systems Rescue Belay Fundamentals Petzl ID belay mode DC TTRS Rigging & Operation for Moderate to High Angle Rescues Litter Operations for Low to Steep Angle Rope Rescue Mechanical Advantage Systems Tension Method for Determining Mechanical Advantage Systems Petzl Maestro -
Litter Evacuation Overview -
High Angle Rescue: Litter Rigging & Attending Litter Rigging Video for High Angle Rope Rescue Applications Pick-Offs: Team Based Pick Offs: Rappel Style Artificial and Natural High Directionals -
Guidelines Radium Release Knot Pass -
Snow Anchors pre-equalized snow anchor Ice Anchors Hasty Belays and Anchors for catching slips and low force falls Technical Snow Evacuations Lightweight Rescue Techniques Roping Up for Glacier Travel Crevasse Rescue 101 Additional Crevasse Rescue Techniques Crevasse Rescue: Fallen Climber Skills Glossary of Mountaineering, Glacier Travel, and Crevasse Rescue Terms Glaciers and Their Perils: Understanding the Dangers for Mountaineers and Rescue Professionals -
Warning! Remote Rescue and small team tactics Remote Rescue Equipment Converting a fixed line to a lowering line Traveling Haul Small diameter ropes and abrasion resistance -
Patient Packaging Overview Improvised Technical Rescue Patient Packaging with Hypothermia Wrap Cliff Medicine Suspension Trauma Update 2018 -
Rope Rescue Checklists -
L1: Rescue Knots L1: Ascend and Downclimb a single fixed line L1: descend a single fixed line L1: perform on rope changeovers (descend to ascend) Perform on rope changeovers (ascend to descend). Self-rescue on the rope (rope jammed or inoperable equipment) Select & construct a single anchor system for the expected load Select & construct multi-point anchor system. Set up an edge line (work positioning system). Perform an appropriate safety system check. Properly protect the ropes Rig and operate an independent belay system Patient packaging for a low-angle rescue. Litter attendant rigging and operation for low-angle rescue.