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Aim

Build comprehensive multipitch ice climbing skills to confidently and safely navigate complex ice routes. Learn efficient rope management, protection placement, anchor systems, and movement techniques essential for success on challenging multi-pitch ice climbs.

Objectives

• Confident identifying environmental hazards when multipitch lead climbing
• Confident setting up the harness for lead climbing
• Confident placing and removing ice screws using the supported and A-frame stances
• Confident tool testing, tool swapping, and resting on lead
• Confident executing the NoFall Program for Ice Climbing™ and preventing falls
• Confident building ice anchors and v-threads, cleaning anchors, and rappelling with a back-up
• Confident assessing waterfall ice grades
• Comfortable with the lead climbing system
• Comfortable with route selection and lead climbing strategy
• Comfortable tying off the belay
• Understand the multipitch lead climbing system
• Understand route selection and lead climbing strategy on a multipitch climb
• Perform multipitch lead climbing and rappelling on WI3 terrain
• Discuss route selection including where to place belays

Prerequisites

• Confident belaying a lead climber
• Confident top roping WI4 and leading single pitch WI3 terrain
• Confident walking in crampons on low angle terrain
• Confident climbing using A-frame technique
• Confident building simple anchors using ice screws
• Confident building v-thread anchors
• Confident coiling a rope
• Confident choosing the right clothing system for ice climbing
• Confident tying the following knots: Figure 8, Rewoven Figure 8, Figure 8 on a Bight, Overhand, Slippery 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.

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