Date/Time
Date(s) - Saturday 11 February, 2023
All Day
abseiling
Learn to Abseil at Mount Portal – then on to Empress Canyon to practice your skills
Hello Adventurers!
If you’ve wanted to learn to abseil, now is your chance for a fabulous day of skills training and canyoning! We will be running a beginners abseil course at Mount Portal in the lower Blue Mountains. Once you’ve had some practice, we’ll head on to Wentworth Falls and take you through a canyon where you’ll abseil alongside a spectacular waterfall!
We will take you through a comprehensive skills workshop where you will learn….
– to maintain personal safety in a potentially hazardous environment
– to correctly identify all the equipment used in abseiling and related safety
– to prepare yourself and personal equipment to abseil
– to conduct pre-abseil safety checks
– Proper technique and best practice through every stage of the abseiling activity
– to effectively communicate through every stage of the abseiling activity
– to Perform a variety of abseils including common cliff features and hazards
– to Perform firemans belay
From there, we’ll take a drive further up the mountain to Observation Hut at Wentworth Falls where a short walk will take us to the lovely Empress Canyon.
Empress ends with a spectacular abseil alongside a waterfall. The perfect day trip to learn and experience the joys of abseiling.
Pre_requisites:
Be ok with heights. Fear is ok. Being horrified to the point you can’t move is not.
You need to be fit enough to run up several flights of stairs without being too breathless.
Pick up gear at the storage facility on Friday 10th Feb evening, you’ll need to size up a wetsuit. We will also do a storage induction for first timers.
Come back to our storage facility (Camperdown) after the course to return equipment.
If you are carrying any injuries, using medications or have any medical conditions that may adversely affect prolonged physical activity and heightend stress/tension, please let me know the details in the comments section of your registration.
We will prioritise people with cars so we may be able to offer lifts to those who don’t.
I will communicate more details including the exact location and how to get there to all successful participants.
We’re looking forward to getting you started on the wonderful world of Abseiling!!!
