Everett Climbing Committee
Who can join our climbs
Students of our course who have passed classroom and field trip requirements are eligible to sign up. Graduates are welcome too. If you have completed climbing courses through other organizations and have extensive climbing experience, please reach out to the Climbing Chair (listed to the right) to learn about our Basic Equivalency process.
LEARN HOW YOU CAN VOLUNTEER
HOW TO BECOME AN INSTRUCTOR:
Teaching classes is a great way to share your experience, stay sharp, meet other climbers and contribute to safe climbing and climbing environmental ethics. Basic Climbing Course (BCC) graduates or those with BCC equivelency need to take the January Instructor Review (IR) clinic (date varies each year) to become Everett BCC Instructors. Attending IR every other three years is required in order to keep the Instructor status.
HOW TO BECOME A LEADER:
Climbing Leadership in the Mountaineers is broken into two categories: Frontcountry Leaders and Backcountry Leaders. Detailed information can be found in Climbing leadership structure.
EVERETT LEADER APPLICATION PROCESS
Frontcountry Leader roles:
Leverage Climbing leadership structure and check the role options, required experience and prerequisites. Once you conclude you have the required experience and meet the prerequisites for the desired role, you can apply / submit application which will be sent authomatically to the Everett Climbing Chair (Rodica Manole) and Everett Leadership Coordinator (Molly Kirk). The climbing Chair will initiate Leader application approval in the next quaterly Climbing Leadership Committee meeting .
Note: Everett Climbing Committee assigns Rock Climb Rope Leader and Glacier Climb Rope Leader statuses / badges through LOR and IGC courses as well (as long as the participants complete the Course requirements).
Backcountry Leader roles:
-Rock Climb Leader (check the required experience and prerequisites).
Two mentored rock climbs are required. They need to be done with mentors / leaders you didn't climb with in the past (at least one of them) and the climbs / routes you pick should be new routes you didn't climb before. Please reach out to the Climbing chair (rodi.man@gmail.com) and Leadership coordinator (mollyjk86@gmail.com) to get visibility into the latest and greatest list of Everett Rock Climbing mentors, pick your 2 mentors , schedule and execute the climbs. Once all the prerequisites are met (and you did complete the mentored climbs) you and the mentors need to fillout the Mentored climb evaluation form for each mentored climb. Once filled out, the mentors will share them with the Climbing Chair and Leadership Coordinator to get you in the backlog for approvals at the next quarterly Climbing Leadership Committee meeting.
-Glacier Climb Leader (check the required experience and prerequisites).
Two mentored glacier climbs are required. They need to be with mentors / leaders you didn't climb with in the past (at least one of them) and the climbs / routes you pick should be new routes you didn't climb before. Please reach out to the Climbing chair (rodi.man@gmail.com) and Leadership coordinator (mollyjk86@gmail.com) to get visibility into the latest and greatest list of Everett Glacier Climbing mentors, pick your 2 mentors , schedule and execute the climbs. Once all the prerequisites are met (and you did complete the mentored climbs) you and the mentors need to fillout the Mentored climb evaluation form for each mentored climb. Once filled out, the mentors will share them with the Climbing Chair and Leadership Coordinator to get you in the backlog for approvals at the next quarterly Climbing Leadership Committee meeting.
- Full Climb leader (check the required experience and prerequisites).
Qualified candidates need to plan and execute 3 different mentored climbs with 3 different mentors (1 rock, 1 glacier, 1 rock/glacier/alpine OR 2 rock+1 glacier OR 2 glacier +1 rock, all on routes you haven't done). Please reach out to the Climbing chair (rodi.man@gmail.com) and Leadership coordinator (mollyjk86@gmail.com) to get visibility into the latest and greatest list of Everett Climbing mentors, pick your 3 mentors , schedule and execute the climbs. Once all the prerequisites are met (and you did complete the mentored climbs) you and the mentors need to fillout the Mentored climb evaluation form for each mentored climb. Once filled out, the mentors will share them with the Climbing Chair and Leadership Coordinator to get you in the backlog for approvals at the next quarterly Climbing Leadership Committee meeting.
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR CLIMBING PROGRAMS
Everett Peak Pin
The Everett Mountaineers have had a peak award system for many decades. The Mountaineers Peak Pin set has the Everett group in their list
Priority climbs
Due to the popularity of certain climbs, each Branch will be given a priority date which only that Branch can post up to the expiration date. This will help manage crowding on routes and allow fair access to popular climbs. 
2025 Mountaineers Priority Climbs - Glacier and Rock Climbs.pdf
Climbing Committee
The Everett Climbing Committee is committed to building and fostering a representative climbing community that reflects the spaces in which we live and recreate. We acknowledge the harms of inequity in outdoor recreation for people of color, women, LGBTQ people and other marginalized communities. We encourage people from all backgrounds and identities to join our community and will continue to challenge ourselves to learn, grow, and act justly.
We also welcome your help on our committee and would love to see you give back to your branch! The Climbing Committee meets regularly every three months. For more information, email the committee chair, Rodica Manole, at rodi.man@gmail.com.
Service Award
The Ken Nelson Memorial Climbing Award recognizes outstanding climb leadership and volunteer service to the Everett Mountaineers Climbing Programs and its community.