Intermediate Climbing Course

YOU MUST HAVE GRADUATED BASIC CLIMBING, OR HAVE BASIC CLIMBING EQUIVALENCY, TO REGISTER FOR THIS COURSE.   

DO NOT REGISTER FOR THIS COURSE WITHOUT FIRST APPLYING AND BEING ACCEPTED.  For the first time, we are admitting participants through an application process.  Apply here: https://forms.gle/nZL2CRZfhE46kWScA 

Applications are being accepted through November 7, with participants to be notified by November 21.

An option "Meet and Greet" / Course Orientation Social is scheduled for November 29.

Also save the date for a mandatory qualifier, tentatively scheduled for February 5, 2023, in the Olympia area.

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.