Beautiful reflection of the bridge in the Monocacy River.

Students in the 2013 Maryland ASRW (Advanced Skills Rescue Workshop) constructed a long English Reeve Kootenay Style Highline across the Monacacy River in Frederick.

Students in the 2013 Maryland ASRW (Advanced Skills Rescue Workshop) constructed a long English Reeve Kootenay Style Highline across the Monacacy River in Frederick.

Maryland RTR Lead Instructor Mike Green

The group of students during the June 2010 Team Skills Rescue Workshop with scenic/historic Harpers Ferry across the Potomac River in the background.

Beth Lybarger of Frederick County ATR attends the litter over the edge at the Frederick County Fire Training Center on day two of the TSRW (Team Skills Rescue Workshop) in Maryland in 2008

A "Lazy Leg" SA frame is constructed for this litter operation during the Maryland TSRW (Team Skills Rescue Workshop) at NRG Dickerson Generating Station in Montgomery County, MD. Note extensive use of AZTEKs in the exercise. Mike Green is lead instructor.

Students use the rope capstan winch manufactured by SkyHook for the raisings off an Arizona Vortex SA frame during operations at Maryland Heights overlooking Harpers Ferry, WV across the Potomac River.

Students in the 2013 Maryland ASRW (Advanced Skills Rescue Workshop) constructed a long English Reeve Kootenay Style Highline across the Monacacy River in Frederick.

The wilderness sites around the Maryland TSRW (Team Skills Rescue Workshop) are well suited for using the AZ Vortex. Here students use a gin pole monopod to lift a "victim" out of a 20' vertical crack below simulating a confined space exercise.

Leaning gin pole and forward facing A frame using the Arizona Vortex at the Frederick County Fire Training Center during TSRW (Team Skills Rescue Workshop) in 2014 with Mike Green

A huge skate block offset during the 2014 TSRW (Team Skills Rescue Workshop) conducted by Mike Green, lead instructor for RTR, at the NRG Dickerson Generating Station in Montgomery County, MD

A very intersting use of the Arizona Vortex here with a cantilevered head out over the railing at NRG Dickerson Generating Station in Montgomery County, MD. Here the students and lead instructor, Mike Green, pose for the camera on the final day of the TSRW (Team Skills Rescue Workshop) in 2014

Frederick County Fire Training Ground: There were not suitable anchors on the floor level so the students looked above for solutions. The Arizona Vortex gin pole is mounted upside down and anchored back for a good focused floating anchor during the 2014 TSRW (Team Skills Rescue Workshop) with Mike Green

Operations turn indoor at the Frederick County Fire Training Center in Frederick County. Here students of the 2014 TSRW (Team Skills Rescue Workshop) perform an operation for vertical lift up a stairwell using a lazy leg SA frame. 

A huge tracking line offset during the 2014 TSRW (Team Skills Rescue Workshop) conducted by Mike Green, lead instructor for RTR, at the NRG Dickerson Generating Station in Montgomery County, MD

Ropes That Rescue "Adopt-A-Highway" on Hwy 89A

RTR has been 'sponsoring' (Adopt-A-Highway) a two mile section of Arizona scenic highway 89-A in Oak Creek Canyon since 1993. This beautiful scenic section is just above Midgley Bridge and includes a spectacular vista of the red rock Mitten Ridge and famous Teapot Rock (just behind the right sign post). 

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.