Organizer:
Salome Hussein
Date/Time:
Date(s) - Sunday 01 June, 2025
12:00 am
climbing
leader training
skills workshop
G’day adventurers,
Ready for the next step with your rock-craft knowledge? By now you should have a handle on whether knots drive you knuts, or whether you’re the fearless and gearless sort that’d rather leave ropes and lockers at the shop. If you’re the former, this course will lay the foundations for more advanced climbing activities, like sport climbing (lead), trad, and multi-pitching.
Rock Skills 2 is a skills trip with a specific focus on anchor evaluating, building, and cleaning. It’s also the start of most club members engaging more actively in their own ability to evaluate and mange risk. Your education will be less rote and more principles and practically based from this point — expect to have to study and practice these things. You aren’t guaranteed to pass just by attending.
Because actual climbing isn’t necessary to be evaluated on the curriculum (and because I am fully over cancelling/postponing), this activity will proceed rain or shine (with exceptions, knowing Australia).
We will cover:
– Safety & risk management, route/rock assessment
– Basic anchor theory
– Anchor gear and selection
– Setting up an anchor
– Cleaning a sport anchor
Who this trip is for…
Those who have:
- completed Rock Skills 1 or equivalent
- climbed outdoors a few times recently
- their own climbing shoes
- a desire to become more independent on climbing trips and maybe even help us out leading trips later on
Where & When:
– Sunday June 1st
– Likely Bangor West Crag
To be considered for the trip you need to supply the following information.
Cut & Paste into ‘Gear I Need Section’ when joining trip:
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Gear I Need (Delete anything you do not need)
– Helmet
– Harness
– PAS
– ATC
My Climbing Experience
(eg indoor/outdoor, how many times, trips)
Medical Conditions
(Any relevant injuries/allergies/asthma/medication)
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See you then,
salomé, Ehren, Nuwan, Aminah, Serena, plus a bunch of little helpers.
Bonus question– where did this below iconic anchor formerly exist and is it legit?
