Please see the Contact Us web page and call the Equivalency Coordinator if you are interested in applying.  A phone interview (required) will be used to determine whether you may or may not be qualified to apply.  Enrollment in the Equivalency Program is by permission only.  Upon obtaining permission to enter the program, you will need to send in your application (mailing address upon interview), and pay the fee to the clubhouse.  You will be required to attend the Scramble Experience Field Trip (or a designated substitution thereof) in early June for the purpose of demonstrating your rock, navigation, snow travel, and ice axe skills; most notably, your ice axe ARREST skills must be SOLID!  This “field check” may possibly be arranged for an alternate date.  Candidates who pass this field check satisfactorily will then, and only then, be given sign-up status to go on scrambles.  Winter Scrambles are disallowed until a candidate completes the Equivalency Program.  The final step, once you have been given clearance to do so, is to go on three separate Seattle scrambles with three separate leaders.  Again, these may not include Winter Scrambles.  One of these trips must be a snow scramble and one must be a rock scramble. On these trips you will again demonstrate your rock, navigation and snow travel skills.

After completing all requirements, you will need to return a graduation application form to the Coordinator, including the names and dates of the trips and the trip leaders of your 3 qualifying scrambles.  Once approved, you will then have Equivalency status with the clubhouse, which will allow you to sign up for any and all scrambles, including Winter Scrambles.

Thank you for your interest in the program—we look forward to seeing you in the mountains!

See this web site for dates/details on these events.  Your completion of the requirements will be reviewed by the Committee. If you do not meet the required level, you may re-apply the next season or take the next Scramble course.