Multi-Pitch Mountaineering Level I
(Basic School)
Mid June to Mid September
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This one-day course is for anyone who would like to learn the fundamentals of rock climbing and mountaineering. Please see our current rates for this course.

Curriculum:

• basics of efficient hiking
• basics of rock climbing: balance, body position, smearing, edging
• downclimbing
• knots: figure eight follow through, figure eight on a bight, one handed bowline around waist, bowline on a bight (Get a headstart and learn the knots at Alan Grogono's knot site.)
• anchoring (securing oneself to the mountainside)
• belaying (protecting partners with rope)
• walking-in-coils (moving the rope and rope team as a unit across easy terrain)
• rope management
• overview of climbing rating system
• easy four pitch climb (5.3 to 5.5)
• basic rappelling (descending a rock face using a rope)
• basic toproping (5.4 to 5.7)

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