2025 Rescue Rendezvous
2025 Rescue Rendezvous
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Overview
The Rescue Rendezvous is a fun way to challenge your skills with you and your friends! Teams will be comprised of 3-5 people. This event will consist of several different types of rescues using your knowledge and safety as a way to problem solve the task at hand! After the competition there will be a community potluck and awards ceremony!
Topics Judged on:
- Rescue Organization
- Communication
- Entrapment/Extrication
- Stranded swimmers
- Self-Rescue Techniques
- Mechanical Advantage
Safety
River rescue exercises are inherently risky. To be effective, this event will provide participants with realistic, hands-on scenarios. This means this event involves challenging conditions that simulate actual whitewater rescue situations. While we take every reasonable precaution to manage risk, understand there is always the possibility of injury. Our goal is to strike a responsible balance between presenting meaningful challenges and maintaining participant safety throughout the event.
This is a skills competition, designed to test you and your team’s knowledge and ability to recognize hazards, assess dynamic situations, and safely perform technical skills.
Date: August 16 , 2025
Check-in time (Carderock Pavillion): 8am-9am
Competitiors Meeting: 9am-9:15am
Head to Competition Site with team (Lock 6): 9:15am-10am
Competition Shotgun Start: 10am
Potluck/ Awards (Carderock Pavillion): 3pm/4pm
Gear lists:
Personal Gear Requirement: Throw Bag, Any amount of Carabiners (Locking only), Webbing belt/ Webbing Sling, Knife, PFD, WW Helmet, Closed Toed Shoes, Weather Appropriate Clothing
Recommended Team Gear: 4 Carabiners, 3 Pulleys, 2 Prussiks, 1 Webbing Belt, 1 Throw Bag
Event Sponsors:
Potomac Paddlesports
Kokopelli
Seals Sprayskirts
Aire
Hyside
TRR Handpaddles
Highwater Hobbies
Lavabox
Valley Mill
Starrkmoon
C. Crane
Paddlesports Institute/ Jordan Taylor
Clean Waste
Crazy Creek
Werner Paddles
Freshette
Calleva
Sterling Ropes
Sven Saws
Rescue Rendezvous (Proceeds go to American Whitewater)-
$180 Per 3-5 Person Team
$0 to Volunteer
