Difficulty:
Beginner to intermediate, experience climbing outdoors recommended
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Fitness:
Ability to rock climb 2 days in a row
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Season:
April to November
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Group Size:
1-4 participants
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Duration:
2 days; each with 6-8 hours of field time
Location:
Rock Creek & East Rosebud, Montana
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Includes:
Rental climbing equipment, group equipment, & instruction from a professional guide
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Excludes:
Food, transportation, lodging, personal items, and guide gratuity
Course Details
This course is built to set climbers up with the skills they need to become proficient with traditional climbing. Beyond the wide range of technical skills covered, this course is designed to highlight movement and strategy. It also serves as a great introduction to trad climbing venues in Montana!
Skills Covered:
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Gear selection & familiarity​
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Review of knots, hitches, and belaying
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Trad gear placement and cleaning
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Advanced anchor construction & considerations
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Rappelling & retreating
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Traditional lead climbing strategy
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Mock leads & gear assessment
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Belaying from above
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This course is typically 2 days long and starts with a briefing at our office and gear depot in Red Lodge. Here, we discuss the dark art of "trad climbing" and the special considerations that that we take before climbing. Day 1 takes us to a gneiss, just outside of town where we can ease into gear placement, anchor building, and crack climbing technique. Day 2 takes us further from town to East Rosebud, where we can practice crack climbing, slab climbing, and the skills learned on day 1 at a granite cliff. Eventually, we dive into lead climbing with gear and touch on multi-pitch tactics. The main goal of this course is to provide participants with the skills needed to assess terrain and safely climb with traditional gear of their own.
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**Don't see a course date listed? Email our office to see if there is one coming up, or start a course of your own! Many of our courses are custom and low ratio, built to your needs.