Although we will practice on local cliffs, these skills can also be applied to buildings, bridges, and towers. This course is geared towards the rescue technician who finds themselves working and providing services within the wilderness setting landscape. Prerequisites:Įlevated Safety is excited to announce our rescue skills course in beautiful Estes Park, CO. This class is guaranteed to make you a more effective technical rescuer and expand your knowledge. In this course we will introduce concepts like resultant forces, AHD configurations, and down and dirty physics for the rescue technician. During this course we delve into tripods and high directionals of all varieties, including the Arizona Vortex, Terradaptor and more.

Rope rescue technicians, firefighters and backcountry rescuers, come check out Elevated Safety’s 8-hour Advanced High Directionals course. Paid and non-paid professional firefighters and rope rescuers.Pros and cons of horizontal load movement via mechanized winches versus mechanical advantage systems.Reave setups (English and Norwegian) for midline lowers and raises.Minimalistic and equipment-heavy complex highlines.Analysis of highline and resultant forces.Anchor selection and Load Sharing Anchors: Natural (trees and rocks) versus manmade (bolting and rock pro).We will also focus on safety, the physics of rigging and the appropriate use of gear. In addition to covering the building and operating of highlines & AHDs, we’ll be teaching rigging, pick-offs, skate-blocks and several other rescue skills.

Our Highlines and High Directionals course uses the natural location of the Royal Gorge Bridge and Park to teach all-round skills that can be applied to typical rescues. This three-day course will teach various topics in addition to you participating in several scenarios. Paid and non-paid professional rope rescuers, industrial access technicians and Search and Rescue personnel.Lightweight advanced high directionals options.

Utilizing both the CMC Arizona Vortex and the PMI/SMC/Skeco TerrAdapter students will better understand resultants and force vectors within the framework of monopods, bipods and tripods in multiple scenarios. This course will build on your existing skills by applying them to the world of portable high directionals. FULL COURSE DETAILS ADVANCED ARTIFICIAL HIGH DIRECTIONALS

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