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NRRT 280A4 - Swiftwater Rescue

  • 1 credit
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This swiftwater rescue course introduces rescue philosophies; recognition and management of risks; knowledge and execution of systems; and techniques associated with rescues of self and others in swift water. This course emphasizes personal safety and simple, commonly used skills through demonstrations and scenarios to provide participants practice both individually and within a team/group context. Students receive American Canoe Association level 4 training which is documented with the organization. Students need to be able to swim in moving water.The course meets online for several sessions and in person for one weekend. Course Fee. Students evaluated on a Pass/Fail basis. 

This is a partial semester, 1 credit course with 3 weeks of online content followed by a two full days of field based learning. Dates and times for online sessions would be April 23, 30, and May 7 from 7-9pm each evening. The two field based days would be May 11th and 12th from 9am-5pm. Field days are held in Fort Collins.

Important Information

If registration is full, please contact the instructor, Ethan Billingsley, to be added to the registration waitlist.

Textbooks and Materials

Please check the CSU Bookstore for textbook information. Textbook listings are available at the CSU Bookstore about 3 weeks prior to the start of the term.

Instructors

Ethan Billingsley
Ethan Billingsley

9704914994 | ethan.billingsley@colostate.edu

Ethan Billingsley is an alumnus of Warner College – earning his B.S. in Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism and his M.S. in Human Dimensions of Natural Resources. He served as director of undergraduate programs in the college from 2008-2018. Prior to joining CSU, Ethan worked as both an educator and guide in various capacities. He has led single and multi-day whitewater rafting trips for the last 20 years and is currently a certified raft guide in the state of Colorado. He has climbed all 58 of the Colorado’s 14,000ft mountains and led many CSU groups to those summits as well. He also spent 7 summers working in summer camps where he gained considerable experience in group dynamics and leadership. Additional experience has included work as a rock-climbing instructor, backpacking guide, and sea-kayaking naturalist. Ethan loves learning about the ecology of an area as much as he likes adventuring in it. In his free time, Ethan loves spending as much time as he can with his wife and family in the outdoors.

Andrew Sampson
Andrew Sampson

Andrew.sampson@colostate.edu

Andrew Sampson is an alumnus of the Warner College, earning degrees in both Ecosystem Science and Sustainability as well as Geography. In addition, he is currently a student of Colorado Mountain College studying Avalanche Science to help further his outdoor education.

Professionally, Andrew has served as an outdoor instructor for the CSU Outdoor program and as a teaching assistant for multiple outdoor leadership classes at CSU. He has also worked for multiple seasons in the skiing industry as a ski technician at Ski Cooper outside of Leadville.

Andrew's personal outdoor pursuits include summits of all of Colorado's publicly accessed 14ers, a thru hike of the Colorado Trail, a successful self-lead summit of Mt Rainier, summits of Cayambe and Chimborazo in Ecuador, and 3 self-lead trips to Denali including a successful summit. He loves spending his time outside backcountry skiing, rock climbing, ice climbing, backpacking, trail running, alpine scrambling, and mountain biking.