Editor: Andrew Morgan
andrew.morgan@ed.ac.uk
Twelve Lessons from the Rescue Weekend
Fleur Loveridge
- Cooking is more dangerous than caving
- Cider is probably more dangerous than cooking
- You really need 10 people for a stretcher party
- How to tie a releasable deviation for a haul line
- Vicky makes a good turtle
- It is sensible to take both a light and a waterproof for walking back from
the Hunters
- It is harder to operate a Petzl stop the further away it is from your body
- Therefore, everyone should be carrying two spare oval karabiners and a
pulley in addition to the standard SRT stuff
- That Mike doesn't have an arse
- Have an awareness of the kit used by different members of your team
- The Polish words for bowline and rebelay (but I think I have forgotten
them again now)
- That, after all, I can save someone who is stuck on their jammers, even if
they are, how shall I put this, of greater mass than myself.
OK, so I knew some of these things already, but am just trying to share the
love. Thanks to Gavin and Tony for leading the training on Saturday and Sunday,
respectively. Thanks to Vicky for helping with the organising, Oliwia for
braving the stretcher and to everyone else for carrying her. And finally thanks
to Wessex CC for use of their SRT tower.