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Mike and Chris just returned from another great ITRS conference. This year's conference was held in Seattle from November 1-4. As usual the conference showcased a number of quality presentations about the latest in technical rescue research, including a presentation and key note address from the well renowned John Dill of YOSAR. Mike presented RfR's latest research on multi-point anchor equalization. The full report and videos can be found here: http://www.riggingforrescue.com/AnchorFavoring.html
This year's conference also included a tour of the SMC factory. The picture below show's AERT's Arnold Peña, a long time conference attendee, assembling a carabiner at the factory. Arnold will be attending the upcoming Rigging for Rescue seminar at Red Rock Canyon NCA
Last week was our Self Rescue and Small Team Response Workshop held at our home base of Ouray, Colorado. The participants were keen, the weather was flawless, and we had an outstanding week of training. Exercises included basic belay escapes and transfers of tension, rescuing the second as well as the leader using counter-balance techniques, a very challenging leader rescue in traversing terrain, a multi-pitch leader rescue and evacuation including use of a tensioned guiding line to cross a water hazard, and some team-based pickoffs. Our next offering of this workshop will be May, 2013.
A demonstration drop test of the British Columbia Council on Technical Rescue Belay Competence Drop Test Method 1 meter drop on 3 meters of 11 millimeter low stretch rope with a 200kg test mass. The belay device is a mechanical rope grab: the Gibbs ascender.
