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We met at Papago Park to practice rope work.The sky was dark with heavy cloud cover. The parking lots around the mountains were closed, so we met on one end of the park and had to hike a long ways through the park to get to the mountains. We set up our gear on a lower section of the largest mountain, where we found some bolts we could use for anchors. From the top of the mountain, we could see it raining all around us, with lightening striking in the distance, but all we ended up getting was a few sprinkles. We practiced rappeling, ascending, some self belay techiniques, prusik techniques and some knots. Did you know that there is a way to implement a carabiner into a prusik so you can use the prusik for a handle? Well if you didn't know, this is a better time and place to learn than inside a cave where you should already know it. Dan got to use a Petzl stop for the first time and Rick and Robert rappelled and asc- ended the big mountain next to us. We all had a good time. by Jim Dawson (o]B-) |
| CAG Members: Robert Sliwinski Richard Arthur Dan Dawson Jim Dawson |
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| We met at Papago park in town |
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| Jim Dawson | Richard Arthur | Rick rappeling |