Access Lines

[Piper Mac]

Excellent safety plan document. Just in passing, should the access line itself be attached at the ground by way of a porta-wrap or figure eight in order that the rescuer and injured might both be lowered back to the ground; or is that assumed by the term "access line".

[DrewB]

Excellent safety plan document. Just in passing, should the access line itself be attached at the ground by way of a porta-wrap or figure eight in order that the rescuer and injured might both be lowered back to the ground; or is that assumed by the term "access line".

 

generally we tend not to climboff the access line (in some situations we do though). in SRT we tie an alpine butterfly above the bowline and in an emergency just clip into this and lower the victim down on another climbing system.