Available Dates
June 28th - June 29th, 2025
July 26th - July 27th, 2025
August 23rd - August 24th, 2025
September 27th - September 28th, 2025
Aim
Advance your rock climbing skills with expert coaching on steep terrain. Learn efficient body movement, footwork, and redpoint strategies to push your limits and train for harder climbs with purpose.
Objectives
- Confident identifying environmental hazards when climbing outdoor rock.
- Comfortable hanging on straight arms while climbing and clipping to conserve energy.
- Comfortable using drop knee and twistlock techniques to transfer weight to the lower body.
- Comfortable falling on overhanging rock on bolts.
- Comfortable stick clipping.
- Understand route selection and lead climbing strategy on steep rock.
- Perform a lead climb bolt to bolt harder than onsight ability.
Prerequisites
- Confident top roping 5.10– and lead climbing 5.8–5.9.
- 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.
- 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)
Learn to Lead Outdoor Rock (R2)
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