WHY TAKE OUR WORKSHOPS?
We're all about sharing information, teaching skills and growing the climbing community safely. Some people like an activity to be lead or guided, we offer that too. But these workshops are about empowering you with knowledge. We teach you the skills you need to get out there and climb harder while also improving your safety and the safety of those around you. Our workshops are structured in a way where information compounds, constantly building on what you just learned or learned in a previous workshop. We understand that you're thirsty for knowledge and we give you everything we have to quench your thirst.
WHO IS THIS WORKSHOP TAILORED TO?
The Level 1 - Anchor Building and Rock Climbing Rescue Workshop IS a pre-requisite workshop for this course!
Please do not sign up for this workshop, until you've already taken the Level 1 Anchor Building and Rescue Workshop. If you have any questions about the reasons behind this, please give us a call (415-890-5209) or an email (info@saanoadventures.com) to answer any questions you may have.
Our workshops compound information, meaning that I teach this workshop under the assumption that you're going to take the information learned in the Anchor Building and Rock Climbing Rescue Workshop and be able to apply it, while stacking new skills on top of the Level 1 information.
The ideal student for this workshop has a keen eye for detail and is thirsty for more climbing knowledge. This workshop is intense, the information is quite heavy compared to the Anchor Building and Rescue Workshop. You should arrive to the workshop with all of your climbing knots and hitches from the Level 1 workshop fine tuned and ready to learn new climbing knots and hitches. This workshop trains you to get out of bad situations, dealing with compromised ropes, and injured or unconscious rock climbing partners. You will learn to raise and lower unconscious partners, pass knots in a variety of scenarios, and think critically through high stress scenarios.
Please arrive with a clear mind and an appetite for new and challenging information!
WHAT WE DO DIFFERENTLY
Just about anyone can put a rappel device on a climbing rope and lower themselves, we're not gonna spend a full day simplifying that any more than we just did. What we are going to spend a full day on is learning how to get out of bad situations that happen during rock climbing rappels. For example, how to pass a knot safely (it won't be easy, but it'll be safe), how to rappel with a partner that isn't as comfortable rappelling as you are (maybe it's their first time!), and how to rappel with an injured or incapacitated climbing partner.
We'll teach you lowering techniques in case you need to lower your partner to the ground from above. You're also going to learn some great leverage systems that we hope you never need to use, but are commonly used by professionals (both in guiding and in rescue scenarios). You'll learn techniques to help you partner aid their way through a tough stretch of a climb, or, in case of a partner fall on overhanging terrain, in which they can't get back to the wall, how to raise them upwards safely (no matter how much they weigh!).
This is the stuff that you watch the pros do and think to yourself "WOW, I need to learn how to do that!"
PRE-REQUISITES
In this class we will build on the knowledge you gained in your Level I Rock Climbing Anchors and Rescue Workshop (a prerequisite for this course).
The Level I Rock Climbing Anchor Building and Rescue Workshop ensures that anyone taking this course has at least the same foundational knowledge of knots, anchors, and basic rescue systems.
Our only other requirement is that you come prepared to THINK.