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short roping techniques

Rope Skills For Walkers

Based in Snowdonia

From £60 per person

This course is aimed at teaching you the correct use of a confidence rope for emergency use in the mountains.

Most dates are available for this course, Simply call us or e-mail us if your interested. We need a minimum of 2 people for this course to run.

 

We stress the meaning ' emergency use' as this is what rope skills are for, to teach you what to do when faced with a situation where you need to be able to provide a secure method of either, helping somebody up or down steep ground using a rope, sling and carrabiner.

The course is not about using a rope in a true climbing situation, but in a situation where steep ground and/or scrambling may be involved.

Course Content

  • We will look at the best type sizes and length of rope

  • Rope managment

  • Using the correct knots

  • How to choose the right type of belay and how to belay

  • Choice of safe natural anchors

  • Types of belaying when using natural anchors

  • The limitations and use of a rope on its own to protect descent and ascent of an individual or a whole party

Course price is £55pp per day minimum group size for a course to run for this price is 4 clients.

If there are 2 clients on the course the price is £75pp per day

The price for a 1:1 course is £160 per day

 

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