Climbing is a great recreational activity for outdoor enthusiasts. However, accidents and emergencies can happen, especially in popular climbing areas where crowds are high. As emergency responders, fire services, and search and rescue teams should not only have the skills and equipment to rescue climbers when accidents occur. Still, they also need to have a …
Using removable Anchors for rescue and rigging are great… they really are. Why? As you’ll see in the video, sometimes options are thin and there is never a time when compromising anchors is part of the solution. These anchors (Removable Anchors by ClimbTech and PMI) can be removed and reused at any desired location. These …
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Hi, my name’s Martin Barnett. Today we’re going to talk about removable bolts or RBs. This is a removable bolt from PMI that is half-inch and it has a minimum breaking strength of 12 kilonewtons. The largest size is three-quarter inch has a minimum breaking strength of 5,000 pounds or 22 kilonewtons. Depending on what …
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This piece is from the RLA course Highline Sections with Tom Woods What we’re going to look at next is the actual anchoring system for the Highline that we’ve just done. It’s a little bit unique setup in that we’ve done all of our anchoring for everything off of removable bolts. Given the area where …
I want to say that I am extremely excited to say… “hey!… I know these guys!” Brent McGregor, Eddy Cartaya and Tom Wood. Brent (climber, explorer and photog) lives here in Sisters and was a huge help in bringing Eddy Cartaya‘s Rigging Lab Academy course (Cave Rescue (Small Party Assisted) Single Rope Pickoffs) to prominence …
