Alpine and Rope Skills

Do you want to learn how to walk on a slope of snow? Do you need to review how to self arrest and potentially save yourself from falling to your death? Are you stuck on tying a figure-8 knot? 

Below are many, many videos with ESSENTIAL skills that you should know before embarking on an adventure that requires alpine and/or rope skills. Click on the link to take you to a YouTube video or article. Also, never be afraid to ask an advisor or fellow Postee on the ins-and-outs of a skill!

• Plunge Step–walking on snow

• Rest Step–walking on snow

• Self Arrest–saving yourself with an ice axe if you begin to fall down a slope of snow

• Overall Guide to Snow Travel

• Rappelling–descending down a rock or ice/snow face using ropes

• Crevasse self-rescue with prusiks–rescuing yourself or another person with ropes that fell into a crevasse in the snow

• Fixed line travel–traveling on a rope that is anchored into a snow or rock face

• Roped Travel–traveling on a snow or rock face attached to a rope that others are connected to as well

  Knots:

• Butterfly

• Double-fisherman’s 

• Figure 8

• Bowline 

• Prusik

• Overhand Knot on a Bite