Lecture: Basic Alpine Climbing Course
BC Lecture #1: Intro and Basic Skills - Columbian Hall
First Lecture for Olympia's Basic Climbing class, after the Wilderness Skills module.
- Tue, Feb 16, 2016
- Olympia Basic Alpine Climbing
- Climbing
- Adults
- For Beginners (Getting Started Series)
- 10 (50 capacity)
- 2 (10 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
6:30pm
An introduction to the class, including an overview of equipment, knots, belay and rappel techniques, lecture & field trip expectations and required conditioners/climbs/conservation club trips. We will hand out your copy of the Student Manual and Freedom of the Hills, ed 8- required reading will be Chapters 5, 9, 10 and 11. The written test will cover the Wilderness Skills from the previous 3 weeks. We will discuss the upcoming Basic Skills Field Trip- what to bring & what to study.
Required Equipment
Freedom of the hills, note taking eqt, student manual.