Tantalus Range

Access

Tyrolean

The cable for the disused Water Survey cable car can be used to cross the Squamish River as described in Kevin McClane's book Alpine Select. If you choose to do this consider the following suggestions:

WARNING: THIS PROCEDURE IS POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS. IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THIS METHOD YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK.

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~durocher/trips/coast/tantalus2004/figure2.JPG (figure courtesy S. Durocher)

• Use work gloves to avoid damage to your hands
• Suspending yourself from a bike U-lock instead of a large caribiner works well, but back it up with a caribiner
• Suspend your pack from a separate line on the cable, and pull it using a long length (e.g. 5m cordalette). This stops the pack swinging like a pendulum which impedes progress
• Use a short length (e.g. 30cm sling) to suspend yourself from the cable as pulling with straight arms is difficult
• Secure yourself to the towers when setting up the Tyrolean