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300 Level Classes: Master Rock

 
Edgeworks Climbing School: Master Rock Classes

The Master Rock climbing classes are our top level classes for climbers who wish to complete their knowledge of outdoor rock climbing. Our expert instructors will teach you what is required to lead multi-pitch trad routes, aid climb the big walls, and rescue your group in event of an accident. If you want to climb anywhere in the world, the Edgeworks Master Rock classes will teach the necessary technical skills to do so.

300: Master Rock Classes:
  301: Trad Lead & Multi-Pitch
  302: Multi-Pitch Rock Rescue
  302: Intro to Aid Climbing
  304: Outdoor Rock Skills
  305: Comprehensive 300 Series

Edgeworks members receive a 15% discount on all classes!


301: Trad Lead & Multi-Pitch  
 
The best investment a climber can ever make is learning to lead traditional routes properly and safely. This two day class will teach you both the art of gear placement as well as how to turn your single pitch climb into many. Trad climbing is rewarding, multi-pitch is even more so; our class will teach the efficient systems and technique required to climb pitch after pitch safely and quickly.
 
Benefits:
  • Learn proper gear placement
  • Learn to set solid trad anchors
  • Understand route-finding issues
  • Evaluate hazards and fall consequences
  • Understand belay transitions
  • Learn multi-pitch rappelling techniques
Details:
  Duration: 2 Days (Indoor/Outdoor)
  Prerequisites: 202: Learn to Lead Climb (or equivalent)
203: Sport Anchors (or equivalent)
  Cost: $179 (minimum 2 students)
  Dates/Times: Saturday: 10:00am - 3:00pm -and-
Sunday: 8:00am - 5:00pm
2011: Apr 9-10, May 14-15, Jun 18-19, Jul 9-10,
Aug 13-14, Sep 10-11

Call 253-564-4899 to register today!
 


  302: Multi-Pitch Rock Rescue
 
What would you do if your partner was injured while climbing? What if a nearby team needed help? Would you know what to do? Self rescue skills can prevent further accidents and prevent a full blown rescue. For anyone who climbs trad, the Self Rescue class is mandatory.
 
Benefits:
  • Learn how to escape a belay
  • Learn how to set raising and lowering systems
  • Learn to improvise rappels
  • Learn to ascend a rope
  • Become a safer partner
Details:
  Duration: 2 Days (Indoor/Outdoor)
  Prerequisites: 203: Anchors and Rappelling (or equivalent)
   -or-
204: Single Pitch Rock Rescue (or equivalent)
   -or-
301: Trad Lead & Multi-Pitch (or equivalent)
  Cost: $179 (minimum 2 students)
  Dates/Times: Saturday: 10:00am - 3:00pm -and-
Sunday: 8:00am - 5:00pm
2011: May 7-8, Jun 25-26, Aug 20-21

Call 253-564-4899 to register today!
 


303: Intro to Aid Climbing  
 
For many, aid climbing is the final step to climbing the big walls. Aid climbing is heavy in both gear and the skill to use it in a safe, efficient manner. This class will teach you the gear required to aid both on lead and to second.
 
Benefits:
  • Understand the gear needed for aiding
  • Learn efficient aid climbing
  • Learn how to follow on aid through different types of terrain
  • Learn efficient hauling systems
Details:
  Duration: 2 Days (Indoor/Outdoor)
  Prerequisites: 301: Trad Lead & Multi-Pitch (or equivalent)
  Cost: $179 (minimum 2 students)
  Dates/Times: Saturday: 10:00am - 3:00pm -and-
Sunday: 8:00am - 5:00pm
2011: Apr 16-17, Jul 23-24, Sep 24-25

Call 253-564-4899 to register today!
 


  304: Outdoor Rock Skills
 
If you've taken one of our 300 Level Classes and want to take that skill to the next level, you want this class; spend an entire day with one of our instructors expanding on skills of any previous 300 Level Class.  This is the class to take if you've been out climbing on your own for a while and you want to make your skills as proficient and safe as possible.
 
Benefits:
  • Increase confidence in your own gear placements
  • Be sure your anchors are bombproof
  • Improve rope management
  • Avoid dangerous mistakes
  • Learn to assess your objective and optimize your gear for that task
Details:
  Duration: 1 Day (Outdoor)
  Prerequisites: 301: Trad Lead & Multi-Pitch
   -or-
302: Class 6 - Aid Climbing
   -or-
303: Self Rescue
  Cost: $149 (minimum 2 students)
  Dates/Times: Saturday: 8:00am - 5:00pm
2010: May 28, Jul 16, Sep 17

Call 253-564-4899 to register today!
 


305: Comprehensive 300 Series  
 
Are you ready to explore the more mysterious aspects of climbing that you only dreamed about in the gym.  Learn all the advanced skills of the entire 300 Series.  These skills intertwine in the alpine environment; you need good trad gear placements to do any amount of serious aid climbing; aid skills make you a more efficient trad climber and get you on the big walls; every climber should have basic rescue skills. The more tools you have in your ‘toolbox’, the better you'll be able to deal with any situation in the vertical backcountry.
 
Benefits:
  • Understand how to best manage a variety of climbing situations
  • Learn when to retreat and self-rescue techniques
  • Improve hazard evaluation and decision-making skills
Details:
  Duration: 7 Days (Indoor/Outdoor)
  Prerequisites: 202: Learn to Lead Climb (or equivalent)
203: Sport Anchors (or equivalent)
  Cost: $599 (minimum 2 students)
  Dates/Times: Includes all 300 Level Classes
See Dates/Times for 300 Level Classes

Call 253-564-4899 to register today!
 


 
 
 
Edgeworks Climbing
6102 North 9th Street, Suite 200 • Tacoma, WA 98406
Phone: 253-564-4899 • Fax: 253-564-4249
Hours:
Monday-Friday: 10:00am - 10:00pm
Saturday-Sunday: 10:00am - 7:00pm