Want to French Free a few moves on a free climb or do a free route having a bolt ladder like Monkey Face at Smith Rock? How about the A0 move on Royal Arches in Yosemite? Or do you just want to learn what aid climbing techniques are all about? This introduction to aid climbing involves a one-day, in-town session with "chalk talk" and practice sessions on the North Wall and indoor climbing wall of the Mountaineers Program Center.

Participants should have climbing ability equivalent to graduates of Basic, Crag, or Sport Climbing course offered by the Mountaineers.

Note: Location is the Tacoma Clubhouse 6:30p.m. to 8p.m. Bring boots, harness and biners, aiders or two pair foot prusiks or 6 to 24 single runners, and two daisy chaines or cordelletes. The goal of this semminar is to practice A0 and A1 techniques used for such routes as Monkey Face Pioneer Rt. (5.7 A1), and S Early Winter Spire East Buttress (5.9 A1). Separate Monkey Face climb the weekend of Oct. 27.