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Moab Women’s Clinic

CLINIC COST: $1125 | RESERVE MY SEAT

The Moab Women’s Clinic is an opportunity for women to meet up, climb and learn with other climbing women who are interested in gaining more confidence and more mastery at the intermediate or beginner level. You may be looking to transition from indoor climbing to outdoor climbing, or you may feel like you’ve been exposed to a lot of different skills randomly by various friends, but you want to gain a more solid grasp on safety and problem-solving in a multi-pitch climbing situation. This clinic will give you the chance to learn handy and potentially life-saving tips and tricks from women who’ve been in the sport for decades, as well as the opportunity to sample desert sandstone climbing around Moab, both crack and face, with a great group of women!

We start our time with mock-lead practice together, to give an opportunity to discuss tips and techniques for leading on bolted routes. We also use this situation for hands-on training and practice at efficiently and safely belaying a leader with an auto-locking belay device and learn important skills for managing scenarios where the leader is heavier than you, the same weight, or lighter than you. (*we will not be doing any regular leading during this clinic: Moab climbing is vertical or low angle, and this isn’t the ideal place to practice lead falls.)

You’ll also learn useful knots for use with different webbing and ropes, safe sequences for threading anchors and setting rappels, and fundamental but important habits to maximize safety on your climbs. We’ll discuss how to assess and improve the safety of anchors you come across, from the bolts to the chains and slings, rather than just clipping in and assuming it’s all good. Depending on the interests of the group, we may address anchor building techniques and multi-pitch efficiency tips.

It’s a lot to cover, but we make sure you get plenty of one-on-one time and practice on the things that are new to you so you feel sure you can apply them later. Our goal is to give you the skills you need to feel safe and confident climbing outside with your partners, whether they are less or more experienced than you are.

Over our days in Moab, we’ll visit multiple classic climbing spots so you’ll get a taste of everything from face to crack climbing on the desert sandstone. At the end of the clinic, you will have a good grasp on where to climb, when to climb there, and the locals’ key spots for eating, camping, showering and meetups.

The group size is capped at 9. We teach with a team of 3 top notch desert locals so everyone gets personal attention throughout.

We meet together for a picnic dinner the night before the clinic to get to know each other, a group dinner is provided on Monday night, and we meet up on both climbing mornings at my favorite breakfast/lunch/snack spot in Moab. Usually the group starts connecting via email in the months before the clinic, to make travel plans together, to set up camping or lodging together and often to meet up for climbing before and after the clinic. You’ll go home with a group of new climbing partners too 🙂

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