Learn to Rock Climb

Rock Climbing Courses

Buena Vista, colorado

BVMA is excited to offer rock climbing courses and instruction on our home crags near Buena Vista and Leadville, Colorado. The weather is usually perfect, and the crags are uncrowded. Learn and improve your skills in a small class setting in the beautiful Ark Valley.

Sport Climbing 101

Learn how to rock climb outdoors

Foundational climbing skills such as knot tying, belaying, rappelling, anchors, climbing techniques, and more!

This course introduces gym climbers or newer outdoor rock climbers to the tools and techniques necessary for sport climbing outdoors. While no lead climbing experience is necessary, all participants must know how to tie-in to the rope, belay and have the ability to top-rope 5.8 in the gym or outside.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Learn how to belay a lead climber outdoors

• Demonstrate how to safely lead climb a bolt-protected sport-climb

• Construct efficient and secure anchor systems

• Develop skills to build efficient and secure anchor systems, as well as, how to clean bolted anchors

• Compare risks and hazards associated with climbing in the gym to sport climbing outdoors

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Sport Climbing 201

Refine Outdoor Climbing Movement and Skills

BUILD OFF SPORT CLIMBING 101 AND GAIN EFFICIENCY AT CLIMBING MOVEMENT AND SPORT CLIMBING ANCHORING TECHNIQUES

This course is open to participants who are in the process of learning to lead climb on bolted sport routes and want to improve their movement and their anchoring systems. Spend a day at the crag with an AMGA Rock Guide refining the skills you learned on Sport Climbing 101.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Gain efficiency with sport climbing anchor systems

• Refine climbing movement while lead climbing on bolt-protected sport climbs

• Practice cleaning bolted anchors

• Practice rappelling

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