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Yeah my Bad. It was a type-o.

It was suppose to be level 1

One week till the weeklong.
Oh yeah

I know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was practicing on my haul systems while on shift last night.

Less than a week now.

I can't wait.

(Well with the new job, trying to setup up a 2nd home, driving 800 miles each weekend for the last 2-3 weekends.. I can sorta wait.. but hey.. I can't wait!)

See you guys there :)

Anyone traveling further than me to get to NCRC this year...?

It is suppose to take us 7 hrs according to Mapquest . Prolly going to take you about 3 times that i would guess.

We need to plan for a CaveChat beer at the Alamo.
Friday night, to get things started?

Are we going to have wireless internet there?
And also does anyone know of any good pits close to where we are staying that we could possible hit on friday when we arrive.
We have a 280' rope we are bringing incase we find one to do.

Tim White wrote:We need to plan for a CaveChat beer at the Alamo.
Friday night, to get things started?

Works for me, just pick a time.
I'm planning on spend a little time at the vertical workshop.
I might as well have an instructor look at my form before the testing on Saturday.

junkman wrote:

Tim White wrote:We need to plan for a CaveChat beer at the Alamo.
Friday night, to get things started?

Works for me, just pick a time.
I'm planning on spend a little time at the vertical workshop.
I might as well have an instructor look at my form before the testing on Saturday.

I will be helping Beck with the SRT workshop.
Let's get together after the workshops finished.

Tim White wrote:We need to plan for a CaveChat beer at the Alamo.
Friday night, to get things started?

You know Tim, that's really not fair, tempting newbies with the Alamo.

For those who are not familiar with the Alamo, let me offer these two pieces of advice.

1) Never, ever, fall asleep at the Alamo.

2) When in doubt, refer to rule #1.



Seriously... I may actually have time to go to the Alamo a bit more this year.

Stridergdm wrote:1) Never, ever, fall asleep at the Alamo.

2) When in doubt, refer to rule #1.

I once fell asleep at the Alamo, but was lucky enough to have Putnam there to save me before anything happened.

Also, I never noticed before, but the illustration for “Fixed Brake Lower” doesn’t show the person operating the rack as a variable friction device.

I hope I remember how to do my check off skills.

L.J.

Another question, do they have a tall tower or are we going to be lowered while climbing for the SRT check off? If lowered, how are they going to have us cross the knot on Rappel after it is lowered to the floor?

I forgot what the setup was when I took level two.

L.J.

ljthawk wrote:Another question, do they have a tall tower or are we going to be lowered while climbing for the SRT check off? If lowered, how are they going to have us cross the knot on Rappel after it is lowered to the floor?

I forgot what the setup was when I took level two.

L.J.

From what I remember there are fixed ropes hanging from the rafters.
They were long enough for the SRT check-offs and attached to a rack incase a student had to be lowered.