This is a combination of the technical and advanced canyoning courses and is designed for people with a lot of canyoning and ropework experience already.
Core Skills:
- Multi-purpose gear, selection and use
- Honing your personal on-rope skills
- Ascending, transitions and knot passing
- Advanced anchors and rigging
- Creative problem solving
- Risk assessment and management
- Rope systems for rappelling, lowering and traversing
- Guided rappels and lowers
- Mechanical advantage systems
- Site transition safety systems
Pre-requisites:
One of the following: SPA, SRT 1 Tec, WRT, BCU WSR, Cave Leader, Rope Access Level 1
Equipment Requirements:
Canyon harness, cows tails with screw gate carabineer, helmet, BA, wetsuit (minimum 5mm) or dry suit, gloves, suitable footwear.
A Petzl Piranha descender is recommended. These can be bought though Vertical Descents with the correct karabiner for £30. They are also stocked at Needle Sport, Keswick.