Scheme Details
- Awarding Body
- Mountain Training
- Scheme
- Rock Skills
- Course
- Intermediate
- Type
- Training
Award Description
Our Rock Skills courses are designed to provide structured training opportunities for people who want to learn more and become independent climbers. There are three different levels so that complete beginners and those with more experience can choose the most appropriate starting point.
About
COURSE OUTLINE:
Background and Planning
Choosing a suitable venue, how to use guidebooks and mobile devices to find crags and routes, crag etiquette and the work of the mountaineering councils
Climbing Skills
Warming up and injury avoidance, developing your movement skills and widening your repertoire of climbing moves. This includes smearing, stemming, bridging, laybacking etc and understanding how to use handholds more effectively such as crimps, slopers, jugs.
Footwear and Equipment
Rock boot fit, selecting the right equipment for improved performance and how shoe models and brands differ. An introduction to climbing protection such nuts, cams and hexes and the ability to place it effectively.
Technical Skills
Building anchors, selecting runners, rope management, belaying, holding falls, lowering, seconding a route and personal abseiling.
Environmental Knowledge
The impact of climbers at the crag, ethics, access and environmental considerations.
Hazards and Emergency Procedures
Identifying hazards, managing risk when climbing, abseiling and bouldering, understanding common injuries, how to get help and the role of Mountain Rescue.
Where And When
- Start
- 07/05/2024 09:00
- End
- 08/05/2024 17:00
- Total Days
- 2
- Maximum Bookings
- 4
- Bookings
- 4
- Venue
- Keswick Climbing Wall Cafe
- Town
- Keswick
- County
- Cumbria
- Postcode
- CA13 0HY
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Latitude
- 54.66251
- Longitude
- -3.38564
Provider
- Name
- Lake District Mountaineering
- Phone
- 07458353048
- Website
- Booking/Details