HAR Recert Assessment Scenarios

1. Scenario 1: Rescue a leader who has gone past half a rope length and needs assistance to rappel

   • Requirements: Participant will need to go hands free, convert the belay and ascend to the climber, convert to rappel and perform a counter-balanced pickoff to an intermediate anchor, construct an intermediate anchor, secure both people to the anchor using a load releasable attachment (corrected text), pull rope and rig a tandem rappel, and rappel to the ground.

   • This scenario will be tested on the wall in a fully weighted environment

   • Video demo (with GriGri)

   • Video demo (with ATC)

2. Scenario 2: Rescue a follower belayed from above on a plaquette.  The follower falls off at an overhanging section and must be lowered ~10 feet until they are back on the wall.  They fall again in the overhung section and ask to be raised past the overhang.  Once they are climbing again, they are then hit with a falling rock and require assistance to rappel back to the ground.

   • Requirements: Participant will release a loaded plaquette (using any acceptable method with backup) and lower the follower a few feet.  The follower will then be belayed to climb again but struggles and requires raising via a mechanical advantage system.  The follower is then incapacitated and the participant must convert to a counter-balanced rappel, pick-off the injured follower, and support them upright during the rappel to the ground

   • This scenario will be tested on the ground in a simulated environment

   • Video demo

3. Scenario 3: Your rope is damaged and you must rappel, then retrieve the rope for later use

   • Requirements: Participants need to rig a retrievable isolated strand rappel 

   • This scenario will be tested on the ground

   • Video demo

Note: assessment scenarios can be performed using any generally accepted technique provided that:

1. All lowers and rappels must have closed systems and effective backups

2. An appropriate hard or soft backup knot is used when switching between systems

3. A single friction hitch on the load strand is not used as the only means that a climber is secured

4. Gear used is what you would typically carry on a climb