Moab Women’s Clinic
The Moab Women’s Clinic is for women who want to take control of their climbing journey in one of the most beautiful climbing playgrounds on earth. You might be transitioning from indoor climbing to outdoor climbing, or you may want to work on technical skills for multi-pitch climbing situations. This clinic will give you an opportunity to learn and practice in a small group environment, as well as the opportunity to sample desert sandstone climbing around Moab, both crack and face, with a great group of women!
We start off climbing on extremely fun and friendly face 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.)
We’ll change locations in order to follow shade and get a lot of climbing variety–you’ll get to climb on many different types of desert sandstone, and learn some crack climbing fundamentals followed by practice time on crack routes.
You’ll also learn 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. You’ll also get to practice anchor building skills one-on-one in a safe environment with personal instruction.
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.
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 🙂
To register click here.
See you in Moab!
