Climbing Course
ARC Pro Traditional Gear & Anchors
Students will be introduced to traditional gear placement and will learn how to use natural and traditional protection to build safe climbing anchors.
Contacts
- Sat, Mar 22, 2025 - Sun, Mar 23, 2025
- Committee: Pikes Peak
- Members: $95.00 Guests: $125.00
- Availability: 12 (12 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
Students will learn about the various types of rock protection to include natural protection, passive protection (nuts, hexes) and active protection (cams); and how to place and incorporate pieces of protection into anchors. We will discuss climbing anchors, to include top-rope, belay and rappel anchors. The student will learn the concepts of building an anchor according to the EARNEST principles; to include placement and evaluation of protection, fall forces, direction of pull, rigging methods and knots for anchoring. At the completion of the course the student should know how build an anchor using natural or placed protection- adequate for belaying or rappelling- and how to evaluate others’ anchors. They will rappel off an anchor that they have built and rigged.
Badges you will earn:
Advanced Anchors
This course has no scheduled activities.
• Basic climbing kit- harness, helmet, pack; climbing shoes not needed- approach shoes work well for this class
• Autoblocking belay device (BD Guide, Petzl Reverso or similar)
• Personal Anchor System or 120 cm sewn nylon sling for tether
• Non-locking carabiners- #8 (at least)
• Locking carabiners- #6 with at least 3 HMS type
• Rappel back-up sling- 10-13 inch tied loop of 5-6 mm nylon cord, or 13.5 in. Hollow-block loop
• Traditional gear for anchor construction
o Trad protection- whatever you own or can borrow (nuts, hexes, cams, etc.…)
*The Club has some gear for loan- cams, nuts, and hexes. We recommend that you come to this class with, at a minimum, a set of stoppers/nuts such as the DMM Wallnut set sizes #1-6 or something similar.
o Cordelette- 16-20 ft. of 7 mm nylon cord (untied length)
o #2 120 cm sewn runners (nylon or Dyneema)
o #4 60 cm sewn runners (nylon or Dyneema)
o Quickdraws- #2
• Nut tool- such as the Wild Country Pro Key Nut Tool (Club has some for loan)
• Gear sling (optional)- alternatively may use 60 cm sling or tied loop of cord/webbing
You must register for this course to see course materials.