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Low Angle Rescue Training in Search and Rescue Class: Fall, 2008

Photo Credits: Phil Graetz

 

Instructor, Paul Van Horn, demonstrates a wrap three, pull two anchor during a Search and Rescue class
Paul Van Horn demonstrates a "wrap three, pull two" anchor.

 

Two Northland College Outdoor Education students practice tying a Radium Load Releasing Hitch, during a Search and Rescue class
Students practice tying a Radium Load Releasing Hitch

 

The patient is packaged in a litter, with the attedants ready to lift, during a simulated litter lower
"Is anyone not ready to lift?"


 

A photo of a brake bar rack, in use, with a tandem Prusik belay system, during a low angle litter lower practice session

Lowering System on the left, belay on the right


 

Northland College Outdoor Education students get practice as litter attendants during a simulated low-angle litter lower
A low-angle litter lower, in-progress.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A low angle litter lower, some of the tools of the craft: a Radium Load Releasing Hitch, a Brake Bar Rack, and a Rigging Plate

A few of the tools of the craft: a Radium Load Releasing Hitch, a Brake Bar

Rack, and a Rigging Plate