Field trip: Introduction to Multi-Pitch Trad A
Skills Review - Mountaineers Seattle Program Center
Multip ptich skills, anchor building, advanced rappel skills (saddle bag, munter rappel, tying ropes together) and basic rescue techniques.
- Wed, Apr 13, 2022
- Seattle Climbing
- Climbing
- Adults
- Easy
- FULL (12 capacity)
- 1 (5 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
6-8:30pm
Two required evening sessions where there will be two stations set up at the program center. Half the students do station #1 on the first night which covers Multi pitch skills related to rope management, voice commands, gear management, protecting seconds on traverse, options for belaying a second etc. The other half will be at station #2 where there will be advanced rappel skills and additional anchor building skills.
On the second evening the group that was at station #1 goes to station #2 and vice versa.
Required Equipment
- Climbing helmet
- Rock climbing shoes
- Harness
- 1 personal anchor (Metolius) + locking carabiner
- 6 single alpine slings
- 2 double alpine slings
- 1 triple alpine sling
- 18 standard-sized non-locking carabiners (2 per sling)
- 6 locking carabiners (in addition to the one in #4)
- One set of standard-sized cams
- One cam each matching the following Black Diamond sizes: .3, .4, .5, .75, 1, 2, 3