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Aim

Develop essential skills for safe, efficient progression to become a confident outdoor rock leader. Learn leadership techniques, risk management, and climbing skills to lead rock climbs with competence.

Objectives

• Confident identifying environmental hazards when lead climbing.
• Confident building anchors using bolts or trees.
• Confident removing quickdraws.
• Confident rappelling with a back-up.
• Comfortable setting up the harness for lead climbing.
• Comfortable clipping into quickdraws.
• Comfortable threading anchors, including making a lanyard.
• Comfortable rappelling with a back-up.
• Comfortable transferring weight while climbing.
• Comfortable edging and smearing in rock shoes.
• Comfortable assessing moderate rock grades.
• Comfortable coiling a rope.
• Understand the lead climbing system.
• Understand route selection and lead climbing strategy.
• Understand tying off the belay.
• Perform a mock lead.

Prerequisites

• Confident belaying a top rope climber.
• Comfortable building simple anchors using bolts.
• Comfortable removing quickdraws.
• Comfortable rappelling with a back-up.
• Confident tying the following knots: Figure 8, Rewoven Figure 8, Figure 8 on a Bight, Overhand.
• Confident tying the following hitches: Clove, Prusik.

*Prerequisites are recommended for an optimum learning opportunity.
If you have questions about how your experience relates to the prerequisites, please contact us at info@peakstratagem.com.

Introduction to Rock Climbing (R1)

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