Are you an indoor climber wanting to transition to outdoors, but you’re intimidated by the risks?
Our Intro to Sport Climbing course is our first offer of four climbing courses that will help build your confidence and skills to eventually climb trad multi-pitches outside. The sport course focuses on rope management, clipping, taking gear off the wall (“cleaning”) and leading techniques to keep you safe while boosting up your confidence.
No matter your background, our Intro to Sport Climbing course will teach you the required skills. Many experienced climbers will tell you that when it comes to safety, it is important to get into the right habits from day one. Taking one of these course will ensure just that. And who better to teach you than long time Bow Valley climber Kris Irwin.
Get professional orientation to the spectacular rock climbing on offer in the Bow Valley and kick your lead-climbing career off right this summer with the ACC!
Thank you to TABVAR for helping to maintain sport climbing in the Bow Valley.
BOOKING INFORMATION
Date:
MAY 27TH – 28TH, 2023
JULY 29TH – 30TH, 2023
Price: $350 + TAX
MORE INFORMATION
Please try to register online before calling. If you are having issues please try to have your emergency contact information and course questionnaire filled out before calling.
OR Call: (403)-678-3200 ext 213
Rock Climbing Hazards
What are the risks
Hazard Mitigation
Hazard Mitigation
Hazard Mitigation
Hazard Mitigation
Hazard Mitigation
Your “classroom” could be anywhere from the front range crags in Kananaskis all the way through to the “back of the lake” crags at Lake Louise. The climbing areas will be determined by your guide(s) based on a number of factors i.e. weather, distance, group size and dynamics.
Our experienced guide will take you through basic to advanced techniques that will give you the knowledge and confidence to head out on your own sport climbing. Climb 5.5? Climb 5.13? Doesn’t matter, this course will focus on skills development rather than grade of climb.
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Introductory
This camp is designed for those with little or no previous outdoor climbing or mountaineering experience and will help you get started and build your confidence. You should be familiar with the sport and have some experience climbing indoors, as well as must have a good level of fitness and be able to carry up to a 16 – 18kg (35 – 40lb) pack for several hours. This is not a course on climbing technique (although feel free to ask the guides for help) but rather a course on rope systems, safety and building confidence.
Food
To keep the cost of this course as low as possible for participants, food will not be provided as part of the course. So please brink along your peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (or favoured alternative), a packed lunch and some snacks for both days.
Accommodation
If you are traveling from out of town we recommend staying in Canmore. There are various hostels and hotels to choose from including our very own clubhouse with hostel style accommodation. Located on a high bench overlooking the Three Sisters, Ha Ling and Mount Rundle, our purpose built hostel is the perfect place to relax while completing your course.
For full details on the Canmore Clubhouse accommodation click here
Guiding
This camp will ensure a maximum 6:1 participant to guide ratio to ensure you get sufficient one-on-one coaching. Our guides know the Bow Valley inside out and will be able to recommend future routes and crags to further your skills.
The ACC hires guides certified by the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides (ACMG). Visit the ACMG website to learn more about what they do!
Rentals
If you don’t have everything on the gear list and aren’t ready to invest in your own, there are many awesome local businesses that rent out all of the equipment you will need. Be sure to reserve your rentals ahead of time to make sure everything you need is available for you when you need it.
“It was day one. No wait, it was day two. No, that’s not correct, it was day three. Or maybe day five. Day six? Do you see where I am going with this? Highlight every day.”
“Great guides, really great guides.”
“All the peaks were fun!”
“Spending five days hiking with such a friendly, supportive group of new friends, in an area that I have never hiked before. An adventure I’ll never forget.”
“The guide knew the hikes, was well organized and a great communicator and was always concerned about our safety and enjoyment.”
KRIS IRWIN
Kris is an ACMG Alpine Guide and lives in Banff with his wife Ellen and their daughters Aria and Annie. He is certified to lead all types of rock, ice, and mountain climbs and has been climbing in the mountains at home and abroad since 2004. Although he feels most at home on the classic ice climbs in the Rockies he has also made several first ascents in Alaska in the past few years. Kris is one of the most active waterfall ice climbing guides in the winter and in the summer can be seen leading guests throughout the Rockies, Bugaboos and Rogers Pass. An excellent instructor and personable guide, Kris always gets rave reviews from his guests
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