Name: Trad Climbing Techniques and Placements Workshop
Start: 2024-12-01T08:00:00-08:00
End: 2024-12-01T18:00:00-08:00

This workshop focuses on traditional climbing techniques and gear placements.

Some of the topics covered include:

• A review of traditional climbing gear (active and passive)

• Geology and rock structure will be a major factor in determining what type of protection is used in traditional climbing, so we will spend some time discussing this.

• Proper placements of active gear and passive gear as well as techniques for safely and efficiently removing and racking gear.

• We'll also look to features in the terrain to use as protection, such as chock-stones, horns, and chicken heads.

• You will learn to assign strength values to each piece of protection, giving you a foundation to assess the overall ability of the gear and anchors to hold a fall.

• Review and critique of trad anchors

Students will be climbing and placing protection into the rock while on a top rope safety line. The instructor will be evaluating and providing feedback to the student for each placement. Ground school training, combined with top rope climbing allows the students to learn the material in a low-stress environment, which we've found to be most successful for overall comprehension.

PREREQUISITES

In order to be eligible for this Trad Workshop, we require that every student has already taken our Level 1 - Anchor and Rescue Workshop (http://www.saanoadventures.com/rock-climbing/sf-rock-climbing-anchors-and-self-rescue-full-day). This ensures that everyone arrives with the same foundation of knowledge, that each student has demonstrated their ability to belay other climbers, build safe anchors, and perform basic rescues.

• Students should have the ability to safely belay with a plate, tube or auto-locking device.

• Students should be able to confidently climb at a grade of 5.6 outdoors (5.8 indoors).

• Students should be able to tie common climbing knots and hitches (figure 8 series, overhands series, double-bowline, clove hitch, prusik hitch, kleimheist, etc.).

• Students should be able to build safe and efficient anchors with both natural and man-made protection, using both cordellette and slings.

WORKSHOP FEES AND REGISTRATION

The cost for this workshop is $189.

Registration here: http://www.saanoadventures.com/rock-climbing/berkeley-trad-climbing-techniques-and-placements

WHAT TO BRING:

Water (2-liters); lunch/snacks; tip for your guides; sunscreen; sun glasses; sun hat.

At this point in the game, you should have a basic rack for traditional climbing. Some cams, nuts/hexes, nut tool, cordellette, alpine draws and a collection of locking and non-locking carabiners. Please bring your own rack if you have one, and be sure to mark your gear so that it doesn't get confused with another participant's gear.

If you don’t have trad equipment, you can rent a rack from us.

WHAT TO WEAR:

Comfortable athletic clothing; sneakers (for when you're not climbing). If you have your own personal climbing/safety equipment bring it, if you need to borrow gear from us, just let us know your waist size (for the harness), and shoes size (for rental shoes).

PRAISE FROM THESE WORKSHOPS:

• "Fantastic class -- learned so much and def recommending to my climbing friends (from beginners to experienced)"

• "Fantastic !!!!"

• "I loved the class- Max was a great instructor, timed the class well and was generous in sharing his knowledge. I had a ton of questions and he answered every single one. Overall I feel confident in my safety moving forward and that is the most important takeaway from the class."

• "I was very very satisfied with the class. To be honest it was far beyond my expectation. I had previously taken a REI class and hence had very low expectations but this class was very informative and the right mix of theory and practice."

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Thanks for RSVPing, please don't forget to register in order to reserve your spot (http://www.saanoadventures.com/rock-climbing/berkeley-trad-climbing-techniques-and-placements).

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