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Caving Equipment 

The Quartermaster has overall responsibility for club caving gear. Gear is available for member and visitor use in club activities. Consult with your trip leader, the Safety Officer and Quartermaster, and get appropriate training before using equipment.
Modest fees apply, with funds going towards replacement of gear. 
Please make some effort to clean off mud and return gear promptly in consideration of the Quartermaster and other users. It is vital to inform the trip leader and Quartermaster of any wear or impacts on equipment during the loan period. Upon gear returning, the quartermaster cleans, dries, inspects and stores the gear, and maintains logs of history for each item.

General use fees per trip: Helmets and lights - $2 member, $3 visitor
                                                   Rope, ladders, and/or rigging - $2 member, $3 visitor
                                                   SRT rigs - $7 member, $10 visitor
                                                                                                   ....you can pay fees here 

Note that fees may vary at the discretion of the Quartermaster; for example, in the case of extended trips with high wear, or use of only part SRT rig, etc.. Use of survey gear is free. 
Fees are waived for cave rescues and rescue training exercises. 

Quartermaster store's gear list (in brief)

Ropes in service: Caving rope: Bluewater II 11mm:  22.6m;
                                                              Freefall 11mm: 25m;
                                                              Edelrid 10mm: 29.2m, 22.4m, and 59m

                          Dynamic safety line/climb rope: 10mm: 50m.

Ropes in reserve: Bluewater II 11mm: 75m.  Freefall 11mm: 175m.

Retired ropes: Bluewater II 11mm: 30m, 40m,and 22.3m.

Rope packs: 1x each small, medium and humungous

SRT rig #1: black vertical sit harness, Jumar and Croll ascender, Whaletail, and accessories
        rig #2: red vertical sit harness, Petzl ascenders, Stop descender, and accessories
        alternatives: Petzl 5-bar rack descender for either rig #1 or rig #2
                                   SRTE 5-slot rescue Goldtail descender for either rig #1 or rig #2

Vertical: 3x Camp helmets with bracket mount for either miner or zoom style lamp

Horizontal: 4x construction site helmets fitted with zoom style lamps
                       2x Oldham miner lights converted to 6V gel cell source
                       1x 6V gel cell charging board

Laddering: 1x 50 ft, 2x 30ft ladders and 5 wire traces

Rigging: various karabiners and maillons, tube tapes, rope protectors, 
                  bolting kit, bolts and hangers.

Rescue equipment: 2x single pulleys, 1x double pulley, 1x Grigri belayer, 1x Jumar,  2x krabs,
                  safety loop, prussik loop, very basic first aid kit
                  (these are additional to above list of SRT, ropes, rigging and laddering) 

Survey: Suunto internally battery-illuminated 1x PM5-360PC-B clinometer  
                1x KB14-360RB (magnetic reading) battery-illuminated compass,
                1x KB14-360RT (magnetic reading) tritium glow-illuminated compass,
                1x Suunto MC1 combined field clino-compass (adjusted for true reading),
                3x 30m fibreglass tapes.

Note: the club also has for sale AA cells, and other equipment for members

Take care of yourself, the cave and the equipment

 

 

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