Our basic mountaineering course is designed for new club members (novice climbers/mountaineers), to learn the skills necessary for safe travel in mountainous terrain. Mountaineering is a skill that takes years to become really experienced at, so our goal for this courses is to simply make you confident enough with the basic skills. Following that, you […]

Practice crevasse rescue techniques.Passing protection. Self rescue using prussic loops. Assisted rescue using various pulley systems with emphasis on the 3:1 Z system.

This 2-day course introduces participants to lead climbing using gear for protection. The emphasis of the weekend is on placing gear (camming devices, nuts, etc.) and evaluating placements. Participants will have the opportunity to practice gear placements on mock leads as well as have their placements evaluated by the instructors and other members of the […]

This is a 2 day course intended to introduce club members to single-pitch sport climbing, i.e. leading on on bolted routes. Participants will learn how to use quickdraws to protect themselves on lead on a bolted route and how to setup and dismantel anchors when sport climbing. The first day will be instruction and climbing, […]

Meet at the Hollyburn trailhead. Hike in until we find a good spot to practice. Practice crevasse rescue (escaping the system, drop loop, 3:1, etc.) until we decide we are finished. Hike out. This is a practice session, not an instructional workshop, so you should have some knowledge of crevasse rescue.