Advanced Rigging & Rope Work

Advanced Rigging covers techniques used when obvious bomber anchor selection is limited, the canyon demands advanced rigging, groups must deal with tricky starts, and improvising available resources to safely keep the team making forward progress.

Many unbolted or seemingly barren canyons typically offer a feature that can be rigged or natural resources to begin several variations of construction projects. This workshop focuses on the principles of advanced canyon anchor building, identifying natural anchor choices, advanced rigging scenarios, common anchor construction projects, soft starts, and working to safely meet the demands of the team.

We will spend the day focusing on a very particular set of skills using a hands on approach that allows each individual to practice and master the techniques presented.

Technical skills covered:
Effects of friction
Sequencing
Human / meat anchors
Marginal anchors
Chock anchors
Courtesy anchors
Guided rappels
Lowering
Retrievable traverses
Dead man switch / hands free back up
Double rope technique (DRT)
Single rope technique (SRT)
Retrievable rigging / ghosting
Toggle set up and pull
Various tension techniques
Protected traverses
Deviations/redirects
Rope management
Creeping
Tail up retrievable rigging
Multi pitch considerations
Rappel lower
Counter weight rappels
Simultaneous rappels

Please Note that the skills covered will be based on time and location and are subject to change.