This course is for the gym climber that wants to learn how to lead sport climbing routes indoors or outdoors. This course is designed to take a competent top rope climber and turn them into someone who feels comfortable sport climbing outdoors, and indoors. We will hit the ground running in this course, quickly covering a variety of topics specific to outdoor sport climbing, before jumping into climber and belayer specific responsibilities while sport climbing. This course will spend time on the ground, utilizing a number of training aids, time climbing with a top rope back-up, and finish with some first leads. The more solid of a foundation of climbing and top rope belaying you have prior to this course, the more you can expect to gain from this class.
MEETING LOCATION
We will meet at Hanging Mountain Climbing area near Sandisfield, MA. The climbing area has a dedicated parking area for us to meet and gear up, and then its only a ~5 min walk to the cliff.
DO I NEED ANY CLIMBING EXPERIENCE?
Yes! For this class you need to be able to comfortably demonstrate your ability to top rope belay, and have mastered the figure 8 follow through. You should also feel comfortable climbing ~5.9 in your local climbing gym on top rope prior to this course.
COST
$200 per participant