Intermediate Climbing Course - Olympia - 2021

Climbing Course

Intermediate Climbing Course

2021 Olympia Branch Intermediate Climbing Course

The Intermediate Climbing course provides classroom and field instruction designed to teach the techniques of safe climbing on rock, hard snow, ice, and mixed alpine terrain. Leadership and safety skills are major components of the course. The Olympia Intermediate Climbing course is offered in a module format that includes instruction on winter mountaineering including emergency shelter construction and avalanche safety and rescue; leading on rock including setting pro, building and equalizing anchors, swinging leads and self-rescue; hard snow and glacier travel including German and French technique; and vertical ice climbing including the placing of ice screws and swinging leads on 60+ degree ice.

Course Requirements
Course Activity Date Availability Leader
Intermediate Winter Mountaineering/Overnight - Lecture
Online Classroom
Wed, Feb 19, 2025
Registration closed Feb 15
2 participants
0 instructors
Intermediate Winter Mountaineering/Overnight
Mount St. Helens/Worm Flows
Sat, Feb 22, 2025 -
Sun, Feb 23, 2025
Registration closed Feb 15
2 participants
0 instructors
Intermediate Rock Lecture I
Private Residence
Wed, Apr 2, 2025
Registration closes Mar 29
3 participants on waitlist
1 instructor
Intermediate Rock Field Trip I
Vantage (Frenchman Coulee)
Sat, Apr 5, 2025 -
Sun, Apr 6, 2025
Registration closes Mar 29
3 participants on waitlist
1 instructor
Intermediate Rock Climbing Field Trip
Tieton River: Royal Columns
Sat, May 3, 2025 -
Sun, May 4, 2025
Registration closes Mar 29
2 participants on waitlist
2 instructors
Intermediate Rock Lecture II
Private Residence
Wed, Jun 4, 2025
Registration closes Mar 29
3 participants on waitlist
4 instructors
Intermediate Rock Field Trip II
Leavenworth
Sat, Jun 7, 2025 -
Sun, Jun 8, 2025
Registration closes Mar 29
3 participants on waitlist
3 instructors
Intermediate Hard Snow Lecture
Private Residence
Wed, Jul 23, 2025
Registration closes Jul 19
1 participant on waitlist
1 instructor
Intermediate Hard Snow
Panorama Point
Sat, Jul 26, 2025 -
Sun, Jul 27, 2025
Registration closes Jul 19
2 participants on waitlist
1 instructor
Intermediate Ice Lecture I
Private Residence
Wed, Sep 24, 2025
Registration closes Sep 20
7 participants on waitlist
2 instructors
Intermediate Ice Field Trip I
Heliotrope Ridge and Lower Coleman Glacier & Seracs
Sat, Sep 27, 2025 -
Sun, Sep 28, 2025
Registration closes Sep 20
7 participants on waitlist
2 instructors
Intermediate Ice Field Trip II
Heliotrope Ridge and Lower Coleman Glacier & Seracs
Sat, Oct 4, 2025 -
Sun, Oct 5, 2025
Registration closes Sep 20
7 participants on waitlist
2 instructors

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