Take an Anchor Clinic, Climbing Safety Clinic, and Self-Rescue
Level I, and we'll throw in the Self-Rescue Level II course for half
price. Just think how much safer your climbing will be.
Spend a day learning to set toprope, belay, and lead protection anchors including
nuts, hexes, cams, tri-cams, ball nuts, and bigbros. Learn how to equalize the
loads on your anchors, and how to oppose anchors to make them multi-directional.
The class will also include a discussion of fixed pitons and bolt anchors, and
tricks for removing stuck gear.
Part 1: history of climbing anchors, how to set good nuts, hexes, cams, tri-cams
and tube chocks.
Part 2: cord and webbing, rigging anchors together to build toprope and belay
anchors, equalizing and opposing anchors, managing the belay station
Part 3: students rig several anchor setups to be evaluated by the instructor
7 hours
Cost per person: $95, minimum three clients
- Location and dates:Eldorado Canyon, Colorado, May 10
- Fort Collins, Colorado, June 15
Learn and review all the safety techniques that will help keep you alive on
the rocks and get some fun climbing in. We'll cover:
- Awareness
- Judgement
- Choosing a safe route
- Protecting yourself at the edge while rigging a top-rope
- Good belaying
- Belay anchor tie-ins
- Various belay devices
- Carabiners and quickdraws
- Harnesses
- Ropes
- Helmets
- Emergency gear
- Safe leading
- Fall forces
- Double checking
- Communication
- Bailing off a route
- Descending
- Safe rappelling
- Rappel backups
- Knotting the rope end
- Retrieving stuck rappel ropes
- Clothing
6 hours
Cost per person: $85, minimum three clients
Location and dates:
- Eldorado Canyon, May 11
- Golden, Colorado, May 4
Far too many climbers get hurt or killed due to simple errors, and few know
self rescue techniques to help them escape a bad situation using standard climbing
gear. Yet responsible climbing dictates being self-reliant: relying on others
to rescue you puts them at risk, and sometimes no rescue is available.
Learn to:
- Avoid many of the simple errors that cause climbing accidents.
- Back up the rappel for increased safety, efficiency and control.
- Climb the rope to free a stuck rappel line, or escape if you've fallen from
an overhang and can't reach the rock or be lowered to the ground.
- Improvise a belay device or rappel device if you've dropped or forgotten yours.
- Escape the belay to assist an injured partner or go for help.
- Haul your partner if he or she has become injured, fallen from an overhang,
or simply can't follow your rad lead.
- Use a block and tackle to unweight a jammed knot or undo a mistake when performing
a self rescue.
5 hours
Cost per person: $60, minimum 6 participants
Location, date and time:
Rock'n & Jam'n Rock
Gym
9499 N. Washington St, Thornton, Colorado
(303) 254-6299
Date....TBD
Bring:
Standard rock climbing harness (preferably with a belay loop)
Belay/rappel device
2-3 locking carabiners
4-5 standard carabiners
3-4 9/16-inch nylon slings
5.5- or 6-millimeter diameter by 16- to 20-foot long cordelette.
Prerequisite: Be able to tie the following knots from Knots for Climbers before
arriving at the clinic: figure eight, prusik, klemheist, bachman, autoblock, munter,
and munter mule.
Learn to:
- Pass a knot when hauling, lowering or rappelling.
- Rescue an injured lead climber.
- Perform a counter-balance rappel and spider rappel to descend with an injured
partner.
6 hours
Cost per person: $85, minimum 4 participants
Bring the gear listed above for self-rescue level I
Location, date and time:
Rock'n & Jam'n Rock
Gym
9499 N. Washington St, Thornton, Colorado
(303) 254-6299
Date...TBD
Prerequisite: Self-Rescue Level I or equivalent.
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