Hosted by
 Oregon High Desert Grotto & Glacier Cave Explorers. 

August 21 - 25 2019

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 Seminar Cost $225  Currrent NSS Member               10% cancelation fee - No refund for cancelations after July15, 2019
 $245 Non - NSS Member                                  

Registration                                      Questions? email [email protected] 

Cost: includes lodging (camping), and meals. The  NCRC Manual of US Cave Rescue is available for purchase at the discounted rate of $40.00 each. Class size is limited to 16 students

About the Seminar

This is a customized, 5 day course that covers the curriculum in the NCRC’s 3 day Small Party Assisted Rescue seminar, but with more time allotted for stations, and variations. We will also include techniques drawn  from the NCRC curriculum, local techniques, and other SRT industries. This is an intensive five-day introduction to cave rescue techniques that can be performed by a party of six or less persons, using minimal gear normally carried on caving trips. This course teaches students how to handle most problems that arise while caving, including basic medical skills, assisting patients through obstacles, helping persons who are stuck on rope, pick-offs, building and operating improvised haul and lower systems, and how to prepare for and prevent problems with limited equipment and personnel.

This course is NOT about litter-based rescues or large operations. Our targeted audience is project / expedition cavers, or rescue team members with caves in remote or inaccessible locations where minimal gear techniques can be used by a small hasty team, traveling light and fast. Course is rigging intensive, and students must be comfortable traveling on rope without a 2^nd rope belay. Students will be expected to study some material in advance so that the classroom sessions reinforce and elaborate on existing information. Skills will then be practiced on the PNW alpine caving tower, and then reinforced with 2 days of stations and scenarios in caves. The course will be demanding, with long days, but will provide participants with valuable skills that can be used to help themselves and others when they are needed most.

Prerequisites

This is not a beginners’ class.  For safety and class efficiency, all students will be required to demonstrate basic vertical skills before taking this course. Required skills, including knots, basic haul systems, and single rope techniques are described here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/g9l3il6cru1xol8/SPARPNW_EntryPrepPkg%202018.pdf?dl=0  The rigging systems test will not be administered, but you should be familiar with these systems before your arrival, since we will be rigging them with minimal gear and in unfamiliar formats. 

The entry test (knots and SRT) will be conducted prior to the seminar on the afternoon of Tuesday between 2:00 PM and 10:00 pm. Any students not checked off by then will not be allowed to participate in this seminar. For questions, contact Eddy Cartaya at [email protected] or at 541-213-6257.