Lesson 1:  Welcome to our Video Course on Knots and Ropes

Ready to Get Hands On?

Thank you for joining us in The Let’s Adventure Academy Course Library! 

This video course is brought to you by The Lady Alliance Foundation – helping change the face of leadership in the outdoor industry. 

The content gathered for this course was collected for our Adventure Safety Festival in partnership with Mammut. Our friends at Mammut wanted to ensure that we all have access to safety information to help educate us in outdoor adventure. 

This content was available for free during our festival, and is now gated with a $5 donation. Your donation goes towards our efforts in providing scholarships for women+ in adventure, helping us change the face of leadership in the outdoors.

Just by being here, you’re helping The Lady Alliance Foundation make a difference. Our collection of free and short courses are to be enjoyed by all to help build confidence in the outdoors. 

If you are able to support The Lady Alliance Foundation further through a donation, you can do so here. Every dollar helps! 

We thank you for your support of our foundation, and hope you enjoy the next few lessons on knots and ropes! Don’t forget to send this course to a friend to help inspire further education in the outdoors!

Much love, 

The Lady Alliance Foundation

Meet Raquel

As a Chilean adoptee, the mountains have always been weaved into her DNA. Raquel’s serotonin levels spike from the clanking of trad gear, torquing of stein pulls, pretty anchors, and killer views. Oh, and don’t get her started on clouds.

Raquel’s unconventional trajectory to the outdoor industry started fifteen years ago while pursuing a degree in Music Therapy and Music Composition. She enrolled in an EMT program to deepen her knowledge of the health care system and gain direct patient care experience. Unexpectedly, this process re-routed her career path and during a Wilderness EMT upgrade course, her affinity of alpine, mixed and ice climbing was born. She started volunteering with Fire & Rescue, Search & Rescue and working in the Emergency Department of a Level 1 Trauma Center. After a few winters, a dear friend kindly informed her that if she wanted to make climbing a year-round thing she’d better start throwing some chalk on her hands. So, she begrudgingly swapped out screws for cams and learned to equally love climbing without crampons.

Raquel spent the next several years blending professional roles in emergency medicine, education, outdoor leadership, and program development. She values being an experiential educator who cultivates the space to propel others forward, finds the importance in acknowledging vulnerability, and is constantly inspired by the resiliency of others.

Raquel is a certified Single Pitch Instructor through American Mountain Guides Association, NFPA Rope Rescue Technician III, Diploma in Mountain Medicine (DiMM), National Registry ALS Provider, and a Licensed Nurse working in the Intensive Care Unit. She is passionate about advocating and supporting the growth of diversity and representation in outdoor education and wilderness medicine.

Raquel lives in the foothills of Colorado with her wonderfully wild nine-year-old twin daughters and Aussie pup named S’mores. You can find her singing soulful melodies and crafting bluesy tunes on the mountain dulcimer at venues around Colorado’s Front Range. Rumor has it she is always up for a good ‘ol fashioned alpine sufferfest if cookies are involved. She is perpetually searching for that next alpine start or finding a way to squeeze in as many mountain running miles as her lungs, legs, and daylight will allow.

Contact raquel: raquel@backcountrypulse.org

Summer Adventure Safety Festival 2021

Thanks to our friends at Mammut we join our host Emma Contaoe from Climbing Escapes as we enjoy a small segment of Pretty Strong, and learn from Rachel Sapp on how to tie some of the most important knots for climbing and mountaineering.

We also have special guest Erin Parisi join us to talk about what she packs for her climbing adventures.

Watch the full Pretty Strong film here: https://www.nevernotcollective.com/

Lesson 3: Setting up a Pre-Threaded Top Rope Anchor

Check out this video from our educators, Yamnuska Mountain Adventures xxxx