Staff Bracelets

Having a staff bracelet is a status symbol, showing to the world that you survived a summer at NABS. These bracelets are made up of climbing rope sheath, that has been gutted of it's innards and flattened out. This length of rope is then cut and measured to the wrist or ankle of the receiving staff-member. Heat is applied to the rope by a rope-cutting gun to seal the bit of rope onto their body "permanently" (until cut off). Some individuals are burned in this process.

Traditionally, the Ropes Director is the one in charge of applying the bracelet onto the staff (generally in the 6th week of camp), but there have been some cases of others applying it for themselves or others. The Ropes Director is also traditionally in charge of choosing the rope that is used for the entire staff.

This tradition was started by Tik, in the early 2000's. She herself was the first recipient, and North was the second, then followed by the rest of staff.

2018
The rope for the 2018 staff bracelet was purchased instead of re-purposed from retired rope from camp. The reason for this was that the patterns available from retired rope did not match well with the recent bracelet patterns.

2017
The rope from 2017 was slightly controversial. Dandy (the ropes director from that year) found a section of rope in the bottom of Waubee Lake. This section was gross, objectively. He washed the rope and it looked...better. Some staff had this rope put onto them as their staff bracelet. Another section of this rope was found, which was much more clean, and was then used for the rest of staff. Many staff disagreed that this was the rope to use. But it was used anyway.