Youth Clubs Parent Skills Series

This course will allow parents to grow and develop their climbing skills as well as trip leadership skills through multi-session seminars and workshops. Parents will gain skills to be able to help out on climbing trips as well as plan and lead trips for the clubs programs, as well as become certified leaders with the Mountaineers. Parents not ready to formally become leaders, who would rather help out as assistants, are still welcome to participate in this course.

We supplement our in-person skill sessions with relevant videos found in this google classroom: 

Google Classroom

Class code: iq6iifx 

In addition to the skills relating to the website and trip leadership, we include a 6 part climbing skills series for clubs parents with an optional for parents -  by parents climbing trip that you all plan, organize, and facilitate. To participate in the skills series we require that you attend ALL of the required climbing skills workshops since they build on each other. 

Please review the resources here in the Google Classroom (link can also be found under "Program Materials" on the course page). We encourage you to practice these skills between sessions with fellow parents taking the skills series. Reference the program center calendar to see if the north or south plazas are available for practicing.

Each session below will run from 9am and stop no later than 2pm. Depending on who is instructing the session, timing may move around a bit to better accommodate everyone. 

Skills session dates

• Jan 11: Climbing 101
• Jan 26: Anchors, Cleaning & Lowering
• Feb 2: Lead Belay
• Feb 9: Lead Climbing
• Mar 2: Rappelling
• Mar 30: Mock Crag Day (practice putting it all together)
• TBD: Parents Only Climbing Trip. Parents wanting to go on the climbing trip should expect to help plan the trip. Historically, climbing the Feathers at Vantage is a good choice and shouldn't be too hot.