MRP TRS: Rappelling
- Leaders
- Alex Garcia (Climbing Chair), David Johnson (Climbing Chair), John Walk (Multi-pitch), Odin Achorn (Single-pitch)
- Program
- School of Rock
- Type
- Sport climbing, top rope
- Trip date
- Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
- Difficulty rating
- MRP Sport|Trad Track
- Prerequisites
- MRP Sport|Trad Track Participant
Join us to learn how to safely rappel! Rappelling is a requires skill as you venture further and further off the ground. It is used frequently in self-rescue scenarios and when the descent from a route requires that you rappel. In order to to this safely climbers must be familiar with how to set up a safe rappel and back it up! Though easily done safely, when done incorrectly rappelling is of high consequence.
Time & Place
7PM in the MITOC Office W20-461, 4th floor of the student center
Required Gear
- harness
- tubular belay device + locker
- double-length nylon sling
- prussik loop + locker
- 2 additional lockers
Signup
- Algorithm
- first-come, first-serve
- Maximum participants
- 26
- Signups opened at
- May 27, 2019, midnight
- Signups closed at
- June 3, 2019, 5 p.m.
Signups for this trip are closed.