Job Description - Route Maintenance Team: Lead
1. Before the Competition
· Check the equipment needed during cleaning: rope ascenders, prusik ropes, karabiners, gri-gri, quickdraws, slings.
· Check your hold cleaning material: large and small brushes (secured by strings to your harness).
· Confirm the best way (rappel or top-rope) for cleaning with the routesetters.
· Also foresee a ladder for simultaneously cleaning the route from below.
· Check timetable for timing of route cleaning.
· Check that you have black and blue tapes ready to repair a demarcation or a blue cross.
· Consult the Chief Routesetter and make sure you are fully informed.
2. During the Competition
· Observe the highest reached hold (cleaning higher is unnecessary).
· Prepare for cleaning on time.
· Try to work fast and clean, respecting safety.
· Do not touch the holds unnecessary, neither with hands nor feet.
· Inform the WCC Judge and the isolation zone steward when the cleaning is finished.
· Be on standby during the competition with your working material ready for use (i.e. in case of a technical incident, etc.).