Trad Equivalency

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Trad Equivalency - Vantage (Frenchman Coulee)

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.

  • Sat, Feb 22, 2025 — Sun, Feb 23, 2025
  • Seattle Climbing
  • Climbing
  • Adults
  • Crag Rock Climb
  • Casual

Likely meet at restrooms at 9am. Holding two days and will do one day for eval and one day for cragging together unless weather is lousy and we will pick the best day for the evaluation.

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
Multi pitch skills
  • 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

Badges

Route/Place

Vantage (Frenchman Coulee)


Roster
Required Equipment

Required Equipment


Trad rack, harness, helmet, climbing shoes

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