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Rock Gym to Crag: Skills for Climbing Outside

  • Start date: 07/30/2025

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 08/02/2025

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Our primary goal for this course is to empower participants to comfortably and confidently engage with outdoor climbing. This involves not only equipping them with the technical skills necessary for setting up top ropes, leading beginner sport climbs, and following more challenging sport and trad climbs, but also cultivating their emotional confidence and understanding of the unique cultural aspects of outdoor climbing. We aim for students to not only feel capable in the outdoors, but also welcomed and at home in this space.

Photo by: maryanne Reiter

  • Event Leader: Patrick McMurdo

  • Event Leader Phone: 206-714-1655

  • Event Leader Email: pmcmurdo1@gmail.com

  • Assistant Leader: Maryanne Reiter

  • Event category: Climbs

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  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Required Gear: - Climbing harness and helmet - 6 locking carabiners - Belay device (and rappel device, if your belay device cannot be used to rappel) - Hollow block or short prussik (for rappelling) - PAS – Personal Anchor System (pre-made, Pursell, or a double length sling) - Triple length sling - about 180 cm / 72 inches long. - Cordelette for anchors. 6 -7mm, 20 – 25 feet long. Prerequisite Knowledge: - Competent top-rope belaying - Know how to tie the following knots: overhand and overhand on a bight, figure-eight on a bight and figure 8 follow through, auto-block, prussik, and clove hitch - Comfortable climbing 5.8 on top rope

  • participant prerequisites: Competent top-rope belaying
    Know how to tie the following knots: overhand and overhand on a bight, figure-eight on a bight and figure 8 follow through, auto-block, prussik, and clove hitch
    Comfortable climbing 5.8 on top rope

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  • Member Fees: 70

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  • Non-Member Fees: 120

  • Committee: Climbs

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Our third Gym to Crag Class outling was a great success! Over 3 days we had 5 excellent participants who learned rock climbing anchor building and how to safely remove the anchor from the climb when finished climbing. All participants practiced lead belaying land ed climbs at Eagles's Rest. They all left the class with increased confidence in their ability to indepentently climb outdoors.

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