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Aim

Develop multipitch ice climbing skills for safe and efficient travel on multipitch ice climbing routes.

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.

Introduction to Ice Climbing (L1)

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