Again, an instructor had dropped out so I was very involved. BMC training weekend day two for university climbing club reps. I had a group of 7.
Building on the things we learned yesterday, we cracked on with exploring a climbers rack and identifying equipment useful for personal climbing and equipment more suited to taking groups to the crag. Learning ways to place the gear safely and problem placements to look out for. Placing all types of equipment but identifying protection most suited to building top/bottom rope anchors etc.
After a bit of abseiling and lunch, I divided the guys into three groups (after a demo) and tasked each to create what they saw as a safe system for first, personal leading, and then strong anchors for group climbing. Identifying problem areas and little tips and tricks to take away from the weekend.
We then set up a bomber anchor for some bottom roping and another for abseiling in parallel. Showing the guys how...and why...we can keep an operator out of the system for control and emergency reasons, and how to keep both static and backup dynamic rope on releasable systems to counter any problems.
All in all a fantastic weekend learning a lot about lesson structure (my own ski instructing experience helping massively) and compiling all I have learnt into a well transferable lesson for the students.
Area :
Dyffryn Mymbyr and Capel Curig
