Lead Climbing II (Advanced Trad)
Class is for:
This class is for intermediate and experienced lead climbers seeking to improve their safety systems, update and further their knowledge and risk-management skills, and increase their lead climbing prowess.
Prerequisites:
Lead Climbing I or equivalent experience.
Course Description:
The course introduces and reinforces wide-ranging risk assessment and management techniques relating to trad lead climbing. This content is critical to managing risk. This course can help you develop these skills in a safe environment, to isolate and fill your gaps in knowledge that may be holding you back back from these next level climbs.
The instruction can include challenging mock leads on terrain that lends itself to complex rope travel and drag issues, and/or dangerous vector dynamics that must be actively managed, and/or complex anchor selection issues. Afterwards, the single point anchors and their riggings are reviewed and discussed, as well as the choice of anchor location, aspect, and rigging.
Expect serious gains in your "quiver" of techniques, your comfort level, and your technical system awareness.
Class Length:
2 days.
Instructors:
A veteran Granite Arches' AMGA certified instructor.
Topics covered can include:
- gear selection and equipment refinement.
- reading rock curvature (identifying zipper prone routes/features).
- managing secondary forces.
- dedicated anti-zipper pieces.
- exploiting camming angles on micro features.
- multi-directional anchors as URPs.
- controlling rope travel & isolation (rope protection).
- rope drag management.
- lead climbing with immediate route and 'piece by piece' gear analysis on counterbalance rappel
- fall practice.
- leg wrap awareness.
- mock leads with variable fall potential.
- and much, much more . . .
