Clinic
Trad Equivalency - Tieton River: Royal Columns
Evaluation outing to receive trad equivalency. Skills covered include placing gear, gear spacing, clean and lower, gear anchors and for certain candidates multi pitch transitions.
Contacts
- Sun, Apr 13, 2025
- Seattle Climbing Committee
- Climbing
- Adults
- Crag Rock Climb
- Moderate
- 2 (4 capacity)
- FULL (2 capacity)
- Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
- Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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For applicants that were not able to attend the February 22nd session or weren't able to demonstrate all the skills at the session.
Evaluation outing to receive trad equivalency.
Please send single pitch and multi pitch trad climbing resume when requesting leader’s permission to sign up. Folks should be comfortable leading 5.7/5.8 trad and have led more than 10 trad routes. If applying for multi pitch routes please share at least two multi pitch trad routes where you’ve swapped leads or led the whole thing and at least one route should have required building gear anchors.
Single pitch skills
- placing trad gear on lead (both active and passive), including an understanding of safe gear spacing, zippering, when to extend pieces etc
- building gear anchors and anchors for bolted climbs
- clean and lower off a bolted anchor while your climber keeps you on belay
- demonstrating a multi pitch transition with your partner (rope stacking, gear swap, tying in to anchor safely etc)
- building a terrain anchors (like a tree or rock) and being able to clean and rappel that anchor
- multi pitch rappel techniques including connecting two ropes for double rope rappels, saddle bags, pre-rigging rappels using an extended rappel for your partner
- belaying from the top, lowering from the top, unloading a weighted ATC device
likely 8:30 am Oak Creek Wildlife parking lot.
Discover pass required
Badges
participants will earn:
Leading Multipitch Routes
Leading Trad Routes
Clean & Lower
Rappelling
Required Equipment
Trad rack, harness, helmet, climbing shoes