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Thursday April 26th, North Bend, Washington - DART-nuun team members Aaron Rinn and Ryan VanGorder delivered a ropes and rappel clinic for teams preparing for the Mind over Mountain race in Squamish, British Columbia. The race requires teams to be well versed in the art of rapelling and to be savy with ropes. The foothills of the Cascades provide an excellent training ground for climbers and mountaineers to get comfortable with their rope work and made an excellent classroom for the beginner level course.

The course covered the following skills:
-Basic safety concerns with rappelling
-Full review of the harness and how it functions
-Rappel devices including the ATC and figure 8
-Uses of prussik for safety
-Proper hand and foot positions
-5, 10 and 15 meter rappels

Each participant was able to complete all of the rappels and left the clinic with the skills required by most adventure races in the United States if not the world. Class participant Mathew Gill explained after the clinic,"These are the skills we need and we can avoid learning lessons the hard way in an adventure race by working with and learning from the DART crew."

The team will be continuing their array of clinics in the Northwest with a kayak class presented by Northwest Kayak and mountain biking classes coming in May. On the race front, DART-nuun will be sending a sport team to Momar, led by Aaron Rinn and two teams will be competing in the Desert Winds adventure race in Lake Mead, Nevada over the weekend of May 12, 2007.

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