The Athabasca Falls along the famous "Ice Field Parkway" between Banff and Jasper, Alberta. Here parks Canada allowed permission for RTR and Turn Around Rescue (Edmonton) to do multiple rope evolutions across the chasm during the 2018 Offset Highline Rescue Workshop. This photo is from TIKA Photography. 

Beautiful Lake Abraham west of Rocky Mountain House up in the Canadian Rockies is the perfect place to do litter operations during the 2015 Team Skills Rescue Workshop hosted by Turn Around Rescue of Edmonton, Alberta. 

During the Canadian Team Skills Rescue Workshop in 2015, the Cline River Gorge was used for a deflection line offset across the slot canyon to perform a litter scoop on the opposite wall of a hanging victim (a student). the entire operation was run from river right with a capstan rope winch.  Tim Casavant of Turnaround Rescue (Edmonton, Alberta) is in the photo.

The beautiful Crescent Falls on the Bighorm River, in Alberta was the venue for this deflection line offset with students in a 2016 Team Skills Rescue Workshop. The classes are all hosted by Turn Around Rescue of Edmonton, Alberta. Photo by TIKA Photography. 

TIKA Photography Image

A major deflection line offset with a small tag line down river (lower ropes to right of photo) used for picking a hanging student from the lower part of the raging Athabasca Falls. This venue is spectacular in every way! We are very privileged to have access to this wonderful place. These photos were taken during the 2017 Team Skills Rescue Workshop hosted by Turn Around Rescue of Edmonton, Alberta.

In the next slide photo, a high gin pole was used to elevate the lines high above the falls. 

Several photos in this slide show  relate to this waterfall. 

This is the river right gin pole and beachhead anchor used to perform this deflection line offset across Athabasca Falls.

Tim Casavant of Turnaround Rescue. TIKA Photography photo during the 2017 Team Skills Rescue Workshop

The Panther Falls is along the Ice Field Parkway south of Jasper and offers a spectacular venue for a skate block offset above the falls. This was done during the 2017 Offset Highline Rescue Workshop hosted by Turnaround Rescue of Edmonton, Alberta

Panther Falls skate block offset 2017

Instructor Reed Thorne and the "whiteboard" drawing of the Panther Falls evolution. All RTR operations involve a whiteboard drawing of the details before rigging begins. 

Adjacent to Panther Falls is a good spot to do a long embankment steep angle tracking line offset during the 2017 Offset Highline Rescue Workshop. Very wet ,misty conditions (from the overspray of Panther Falls to the left) and anchoring at the bottom station was tough. Notice the rain coats and hoods. 

Adjacent to Panther Falls is a good spot to do a long embankment steep angle tracking line offset during the 2017 Offset Highline Rescue Workshop. We used an Arizona Vortex at the top station to help get the elevation we needed to clear the trees and rocks. 

Steve Lawrence of Salt Lake City Fire and RTR Instructor, Reed Thorne

The rigging bipod was lashed to a nearby tree for stability. It was rendered the main "bombproof" anchor for the operation over Sunwapta Falls on the Ice Field Parkway. 

Here a student is performing a litter scoop from a deflection line offset just below the Sunwapta Falls during the 2017 Offset Highline Rescue Workshop in Alberta.

Photo 3: Sunwapta Falls topside rigging with tandem gin poles to allow tourists throughduring the 2017 Offset Highline Rescue Workshop in Alberta.. 

Thumbs up during the 2017 Offset Highline Rescue Workshop in Alberta.

Photo 5: Sunwapta Falls Litter Rigging during the 2017 Offset Highline Rescue Workshop in Alberta.

Tim Casavant of Turnaround Rescue. TIKA Photography photo during the 2017 Team Skills Rescue Workshop

This river left gin pole was upside down and used as the main "bombproof" attachment rigging pod for the operation down stream for a deflection rope offset. It also hosted the capstan winch for the operation. Tim Casavant of Turn Around Rescue (Edmonton, Alberta) is on the right next to the Parks Canada ranger on the left. 

A major deflection line offset with a small tag line down river (lower ropes to right of photo) used for picking a hanging student from the lower part of the raging Athabasca Falls. This venue is spectacular in every way! We are very privileged to have access to this wonderful place. These photos were taken during the 2017 Team Skills Rescue Workshop hosted by Turn Around Rescue of Edmonton, Alberta.

Several photos in this slide show relate to this waterfall. 

Sunwapta Falls English Reeving Highline used to pick a hanging student during the 2017 Offset Highline Rescue Workshop. 

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This John William Waterhouse painting illustrates Alfred Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott. Draped over the boat is the fabric the lady wove in a tower near Camelot. But she brought a curse on herself by looking directly at Sir Lancelot. With her right hand she lets go of the chain mooring the boat. Her mouth is slightly open, as she sings 'her last song'. She stares at a crucifix lying in front of her. Beside it are three candles, often used to symbolize life. Two have blown out. This suggests her life will end soon, as she floats down the river.

From Reed Thorne: The classic Brittish Pre-Raphaelite style John William Waterhouse painting of The Lady of Shalott from the Tenneyson Poem. The painting is my favorite classical piece found in the Tate Museum in London. I stood in awe of it when I visited the Tate in 1974.