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.