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Kodiak Island Search Rescue May KISAR Rope Rescue Pickoff Training For KISARs May training we headed into Fort Abercrombie State Park and constructed a dual capability twotensioned rope system to perform a pickoff rescue of a subject in complicated highangle terrain. The group explored building anchors using the trees at the top of the cliff assembled a twin rope lowering system with one rope passing through a high redirect near the cliff top to assist with the edge transition and then lowered a rescuer to where the subject was located at the base of the cliff. The rescuer then placed the subject in a Cobra buckle quickrelease harness. The team at the top converted the rope systems to a raise configuration and brought the rescuer and subject back up the cliff.