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Aim

Develop essential ice climbing lead skills for safe, confident progression toward becoming a proficient single-pitch ice leader. Learn protection placement, route reading, and efficient movement to lead with skill and safety.

Objectives

• Confident identifying environmental hazards when lead climbing
• Confident using the A-frame technique, including the swinging and kicking positions
• Confident building ice and v-thread anchors
• Confident rappelling with a back-up
• Confident removing ice screws
• Comfortable setting up the harness for lead climbing
• Comfortable placing and removing ice screws using the supported and A-frame stances
• Comfortable tool testing, tool swapping, and resting on lead
• Comfortable executing the NoFall Program for Ice Climbing™ and how to prevent falls
• Comfortable cleaning anchors, including making a lanyard
• Comfortable assessing waterfall ice grades
• Comfortable coiling a rope
• Comfortable choosing the right clothing for ice climbing
• Understand the lead climbing system
• Understand route selection and lead climbing strategy
• Understand tying off the belay
• Perform a mock lead and the NoFall Program for Ice Climbing™

Prerequisites

• Confident belaying a top rope climber
• Confident walking in crampons on low angle terrain
• Comfortable climbing using A-frame technique
• Comfortable building simple anchors using ice screws
• Comfortable building v-thread anchors
• Comfortable removing ice screws
• 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 Ice Climbing (L1)

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