Photo: Spiderman makes guest appearance at 2012 TR Ropes Class     

High Angle Task Group

The High Angle Task Group provides qualified and experienced high angle, rope rescue, and other technical mountain rescue resources within Avery County, North Carolina, and to nearby counties on a mutual-aid basis, for the purposes of accessing, stabilizing, removing, or evacuating stranded, disabled, or injured subjects, or for body recovery. LCRS personnel include several well-recognized state ropes instructors. Linville-Central assisted in hosting the National Park Service Eastern High Angle Rescue School for two years, 2009 and 2010, and several LCRS members completed the training program.

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