Thinking Outside the Box - Ropework

Name: Thinking Outside the Box - Ropework
Start: 2024-05-16T09:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-05-16T16:30:00+01:00
Location: Ilkley Moor Cow And Calf Rocks

Schedule

Thu May 16 2024 at 09:30 am to 04:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Ilkley Moor Cow And Calf Rocks | Leeds, EN

£45 per person
Open to RCI and RCI trainees
Introduction
The Ilkley Cow & Calf CPD Day is aimed at RCIs, newly qualified and qualified instructors who are interested in developing rigging and selection of routes. Ilkley Cow & Calf lends itself well to several group abseils and climbs, and therefore opportunities to explore anchors and issues related to venues.
Syllabus
Anchors – explore as a group a 3-anchor system in the quarry with equalisation. Look at the pros and cons of the systems and the equipment that each have used and created. Using different means by which to equalise two anchors before equalising with the third anchor. Skills reviewed included:
- W-system vs V-system
- Bowlines, overhands, alpine butterflies and bunny-ears
- Isolation loops
- Use of additional equipment, i.e. rope-only and slings.
- Gear placement
- Climbs – Selecting relevant climbs for a group, and the benefits of visiting a crag beforehand as a climber. The routes selected and rigged by each group have problem-solving issues related to them. Routes may include:
- Rope cinching by cracks (Josephine Superdirect)
- Swings/Pendulums (Fairy Steps and Walewska)
- Sloping edges and anchor abrasion (Fairy Steps and Napoleon)
Abseils – There is such an abundance of group abseils at Ilkley, that is great to visit issues related to each, both from a rigging and personal safeguarding point of view, but also group management. Doris and The Cow for example you also lose sight of your abseiler.
- Choosing abseils related to group ability, consider progression
- Spotters/Assistants at the bottom
- Considerations of high vs low anchors
- Stretch in long anchors and the effect on the abseiler