$575.00
Description
This 12-week course provides an introduction to outdoor rock climbing, navigation, ice axe arrest, rope team travel, lead belay, and crevasse rescue. The course utilizes Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills as foundational reading prior to experiential coursework. Each week includes readings, classroom practice, and an outing that will provide recurring practice with skills a mountaineer will need to travel safely in the alpine. Participants must show basic skills competence during weekday session prior to weekend outing.
Fitness Level
Each outing will be physically demanding and requires strong hiking fitness and endurance. We recommend that all students engage in several weeks of regular hiking experience with more than 1,000ft of elevation gain each hike prior to starting the course. Strength training experience is also recommended. Prior to the course there will be a mandatory fitness hike. All participants in the 8 week course will need to show that they are able to carry 30lbs up the Pine & Cedar Trail in the Chuckanuts in under 1 hour and 5 minutes.
Required Fitness Hike: Sat Mar 15 2025
First Class Session, Burlington: Wed Mar 26 2025
Navigation Outing: Sat Mar 29 2025
Navigation Outing (Rain Backup): Sun Mar 30 2025
Trail work party day placeholder: Sat Apr 05 2025
Class Session in Burlington: Wed Apr 09 2025
Ice Axe Arrest Outing: Sat Apr 12 2025 - April 13, 2025
Class Session in Burlington: Wed Apr 16 2025
Rock Climbing Intro Outing: Sat Apr 19 2025
Rock Climbing Intro Outing (Rain Backup): Sun Apr 20 2025
Class Session in Burlington: Wed Apr 23 2025
Rope Team Travel Outing: Sat Apr 26 2025 - April 27, 2025
Class Session in Burlington: Wed Apr 30 2025
Lead Belay Outing: Sat May 03 2025 - May 4, 2025
Trail work party day placeholder 2: Sat May 10 2025
Class Session in Burlington: Wed May 14 2025
Crevasse Rescue outing: Sat May 17 2025 - May 18, 2025
(Optional) Skagit Alpine Club Group Camp: Sat May 24 2025 - May 26, 2025
Class Session in Burlington: Wed Jun 04 2025
Crevasse Rescue 2 Outing: Sat Jun 07 2025 - June 8, 2025