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Phoenix Summit Challenge Participants can pick up their event packets at the Hiking Shack on Saturday, October 30th between 10am and 4pm and on Sunday, October 31st from 12 noon – until 3pm

The ever popular sock give-a-way continues! However this year, ONLY THOSE ACTUALLY PRESENT, qualify for the free socks. That means if you are picking packets for 5 of your friends, ONLY YOU, will get the free socks (you’ve earned them!) . . . 50 pairs of socks will be given away each day . . .

Once again, Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department is hosting the Phoenix Summit Challenge.
The 3 Day Event will include multiple Categories along different fitness and difficulty levels. Check out the City of Phoenix website for more information, and maps of each Challenge.
Event Date: November 5th - 7th
Registration: August 7th (online registration form will be viewable at Phoenix.gov by July 23rd)

The Tower Rigging Workshop is an intensive 9 day long "open enrollment" workshop designed specifically for the following who work, or train others to work, at elevation:

Recognizing the need for advanced-level train-the-trainer instruction on the use of any "artificial high directional" (AHD), RTR has developed the 7 day ARTIFICIAL HIGH DIRECTIONAL WORKSHOP suitable for fire emergency and rope access professionals. From Reed Thorne, the designer of the Arizona Vortex Multipod, this AZVIW is meant to assist the rope rescue instructor with information relative to the use of manufactured high directionals. This workshop would be suitable for ANY manufactured or improvised high directional (not including wood frame) including the Larkin Frame, SMC Terradaptor, or Ferno Aracnipod (students requesting training on these AHD are required to bring these devices with them to their program).
The AHDW is a hands-on workshop on the use and correct implementation of artificial high directionals (AHD) for industry and wilderness settings. The AZVIW is also well suited for teaching rope access professionals the benefits of AHD's in their work.
This AHDW program replaces the older 5 day AZVIW for 2009 and 2010.
Some specialized personal equipment needed to participate in this program (see bottom right)

The Team Skills Rescue Workshop is ideal for industrial and wilderness rescue teams and is designed to review some practices from the PSRW, yet carry on into more demanding rescue practices and team-building skills. This, and the PSRW, are the seminars which fulfill the "90% solution" on most rope rescues within industry and wilderness locations. Lectures on intermediate physics and how it relates to rope rigging are common throughout the duration of this seminar. Emphasis is places on "why" we do something, rather than "how". Students, as a team unit, learn how to build seemingly complex arrangements for reaching, treating and extricating a patient from the vertical high angle environment whether in industrial locations or in the wilderness. All the while, emphasis is placed on building everything from the basic materials most teams will have along: rope, carabiners, pulleys, accessory cord, webbing and know how. Specialized equipment, while certainly handy and interesting, is discouraged in this rigging-intensive course. Some rescuers also feel that an intermediate-level program should include highlines. The TSRW includes an extensive lecture and practical section on alternatives to highlines in the form of "offsets". Ropes That Rescue has become known for it's projection of these offsets as an alternative to training intensive highlines in the past 10 years. Offsets employ standard high angle techniques that most rescuers already know and so are more forgiving in the training curve than more elaborate systems.
The TSRW is not by any means a beginning rope rescue program. It is a serious venture and complete immersion into rescue systems that can sometimes be overwhelming to some less experienced practitioners.

The Rope Access Skills Workshop 1 is an intensive 6 day long open enrollment workshop intended specifically for those who work on rope at elevation. Rope access is used around the world to support or place workers in various environments for the purpose of performing their jobs. This may include, but is not limited to:
Bridge, dam or structural inspectors

The RASW-1 is a full six days in length and is taught at 4,500' in beautiful Sedona, Arizona (Oak Creek Canyon) and provides basic-to-intermediate skills for the authorized rope access worker.
The RASW-1 is entry level and provides training needed for the Society of Professional Rope Access Technician (SPRAT) Level 1 (Worker) certification.

The Personal Skills Rescue Workshop is considered by many past students as our most enjoyable and interactive. There is no shortage of on rope fun at this seminar! The PSRW, and the Team Skills Rescue Workshop are the courses which fulfill the 90% solution on most rope rescues within industry and wilderness locations. It is designed for the serious rope rescue practitioner wishing to improve their personal rigging skill. This seminar is sometimes mistakenly perceived as a beginning program due to the personal nature of many of the evolutions. In fact, it is for those that never seem to get enough on rope experience or time over the edge. The PSRW begins with valuable, yet simple lessons on physics, safety in the vertical realm and then moves into practical and fun-filled days where multiple rope stations keep the practitioner busy throughout the day. The final day of the seminar involves the discovery, medical treatment, packaging and extrication of a patient planted in a secret location in the wilderness. Students in the PSRW practice their skills and learn to work together as a team in successful retrieval of this patient in a non-threatening environment. The PSRW goes well into often overlooked personal skills that are taken for granted on most rescue teams. Students also learn the classic differences (in risk) associated with belays, self belays, conditional belays and conditional self belays.
Warning: There is a very very strong emphasis on knotcraft in this seminar! Students are tested throughout the program for proficiency and the ability to tie under pressure. All in fun, of course!