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Aim

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

Objectives

• Confident identifying environmental hazards when multipitch lead climbing.
• Confident setting up the harness for lead climbing.
• Confident building anchors using bolts, cleaning anchors, and rappelling with a back-up.
• Confident assessing moderate rock 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.
• Understand clothing systems for rock climbing.
• Perform multipitch lead climbing and rappelling on 5.6–5.7 terrain.
• Discuss route selection.

Prerequisites

• Confident belaying a lead climber.
• Confident top roping 5.8–5.9 and leading single pitch 5.6–5.7 terrain.
• Confident building simple anchors using bolts, cleaning anchors, and threading anchors for lower or rappel.
• Confident coiling a rope.
• 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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