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 […]

Prussic Practice for Self Rescue. Various pulley systems including the Z pulley for assisted crevasse rescue.

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 be have the opportunity to practice gear placements on mock leads as well as have their placements evaluated by the instructors and other members of […]

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 […]

This is a 2 day course intended to teach club members: (a) how to build anchors for top roping, and (b) how to rappel safely. The course objective it is give participants a chance to learn the different types of anchor setups, and to practice building them while in a controlled setting. The evaluation of […]