Organizer:
Salome Hussein
Date/Time:
Date(s) - Sunday 21 August, 2022
All Day
climbing
skills workshop
Good day adventurers,
This skills course prepares attendees to top-rope safely outdoors on rock-climbing trips with the club. No experience is necessary, but a few visits to a local climbing or bouldering gym are strongly recommended (besides which, you’ll need climbing shoes, and you’ll have no idea what a good fit is without having climbed in some).
Fair warning, if you don’t provide any information in your signup, I will choose those who have done so before reaching out to you.
We’ll go to a relatively local crag, where the scouts learn to abseil and the walls are high — Wahroonga Rocks.
What we’ll cover:
- Risk management: Crag and edge safety
- Equipment: use, evaluation of integrity, maintenance, ratings, soft and hard gear
- Climbing communication and buddy checks
- Top rope belaying
- Basic climbing technique
Gear required:
Club can lend
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- Harness
- Helmet
- Personal anchor system (if you don’t know what that is, assume you need one)
- Belay device
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Must have own:
- Climbing shoes
Please list the gear you’d like to borrow in the relevant field.
We look forward to seeing a bunch of new climbers get a feel for real rock.
Salome (Sam), Nuwan, and Ehren
