These are the most common ‘shallow water crossing’ techniques that we teach on river rescue courses — but there are a ton of other options as well! | Boreal River Rescue

We’ve ‘stolen’ from several other disciplines to create surface ice rescue techniques: the V-thread anchor is used by ice climbers for repelling or climbing without having to leave ice screws behind…we can use it for ice rescue to make a strong anchor, or multiple anchors, if we need to set up a rope system (most likely to recover a stuck snowmobile, gear sled, or other equipment). A few points: - use the longest ice screw(s) available (19cm ), to leave enough ice above the holes to make a stron