SRT Leader Intermediate
Skills for leading people in locations with simple and straightforward rebelays and deviations.
Must already have
May be trained by
May lead up to
Skills Description
- Knots
- Some method of joining rope securely with loop to enable smooth passage and cowstail security connection
- Eg Double Fishermans, Reverse Rethreaded Figure-of-eight (flemish bend), etc
- Rope self-rescue skills
- Breaking into a rope system to haul
- Various options exist
- Descent rescue through rebelay/deviation down
- Ability to talk someone (whether you can see them or not) through to
- Changeovers
- Abseiling at Pitchheads
- Prussiking
- Rebelays
- Deviations
- Knot Passes
- Knowledge of common problems
- Rigging a rebelay
- How much loop to leave
- Consideration of minimising potential shockloads
- Rigging a deviation
- Awareness of increasing difficulty from higher angles and forces from high angles.
- Rigging a knot pass
- And how to avoid needing one.
- Problem solving common rebelay and deviation skills
- Awareness of common problems at rebelays and deviations
- Clipping a deviation
- Unable to unload cowstails or jammers at rebelay
- Getting jammers stuck tight underneath a knot
- Confusing deviations and rebelays
- Awareness that being above the problem is almost always the best place to solve a problem from
- Pull through
- Using a safe knot they already know
- How to keep lower skilled people safe near them
Example caves this might allow you to do
P8 ("rigged properly"), Lancaster Hole, Nickergrove, Snelslow, Knotlow Climbing Shaft, Shuttleworth, Alum Pot