Blue Mountains Climber's Rescue Group

Report - Practice Day 14/11/02
18 people turned up at Dogface where some short practices were done on a small cliff to the south of the main cliff. The first couple were on a 20m cliff that was less than vertical and required two litter attendants to keep the litter from scraping and banging all the way up. We selected two light litter attendants to keep the total load weight under 200kg. After that we moved to the main cliff (20m south of the lookout) where a number of lifts were done down the main face to a person who was hanging "injured" about 60m down the cliff . A rescuer with litter was sent to collect the victim. We swapped roles around so lots of people took active roles in each practice.


The next prac day will be scheduled for mid February - watch the site for an exact date. It is planned to tackle an exercise with a patient trapped under a big overhang - probably on Gorgon.

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