Lectures: Amercian Mountaineering Center, 710 10th St.,Golden, CO 80401
Field Day: Loveland Pass
Please contact Seminar Director Dan Feighery at dan.feighery@gmail.com with your HAMS or equivalent experience by Friday April 7th to receive your passcode for registration.
This class is open to any current High Altitude Mountaineering School (HAMS) students, HAMS graduates, or CMC members with equivalent experience building 3:1 haul systems.
Our lectures and real-life field scenario will give you the skills needed to rescue a climbing partner who has fallen into a crevasse as well as mitigate your own risk should you fall into one. After this seminar, the skills learned will prepare you to confidently travel on not just well-trodden trade routes but on some of the less populated glacier routes around the world where being self-sufficient is mandatory.
The Advanced Crevasse Rescue Seminar consists of two lectures and one field day:
Our intent is that by the end of the seminar students will be able to:
Our expectation is that students will have already mastered the construction of a 3:1 haul system PRIOR to this seminar. The 3:1 system will be the basis for both our 5:1 and 6:1 systems. Refresher materials will be sent to students prior to the first lecture. We will not be reviewing the 3:1 system as part of this class so preparation is a MUST.