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Re: [USnavy] Training to lead multi-pitch?:
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kachoong
Jan 23, 2009, 6:58 PM
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USnavy wrote: kachoong wrote: USnavy wrote: dingus wrote: Get your ass on some routes and lead them. If you want to lead, LEAD. Stop hiding behind a training regime. Suck it up buttercup - On Belay. Now STUF and start climbing, we have a route to send. I don’t have any multi-pitch where I live to climb. That’s the point of the thread. I am trying to figure out what I can do in the two months I have left to help prepare for the multi-pitch routes when I get to Red Rocks. And I have been leading. I have lead 90% of the last 75 sport routes I climbed. I always prefer to lead as so long as the route is not R or X. I have been messing around trying to lead some 10a trad routes lately instead of my normal 11+ / 12- sport regime to train for the multi-pitch routes and that’s helped a lot increasing my confidence climbing on gear. I figure if I can get to the point where I am confident on 5.10- on gear I will be fine on the 6's, 7', and 8' in Red Rocks.  If you're going to Red Rocks at the time of the Rendezvous sign up for the Multi-pitch efficiency clinic and refine what you learn from now until then. I was considering that. Right now I am signed up for hard sport, soft catch but I was thinking of changing it. Do you know specifically what that class entails? Obviously it’s about multi-pitch but is it a ground class or do they actually take you to a multi-pitch route?
Well, the clinic details haven't been updated at all, but the description so far says:
In reply to: This is your chance to learn Muti-pitch systems with a focus on options for equipment, route finding, reading topos, belaying, safety, speed and rope management.
I would imagine it's taught on a fairly accessible "moderate" trad route, with some ground schooling taught at the base. I've never attended such a clinic so I don't know for sure.
If I were you, I'd ditch "hard sport" and take up "multi-pitch efficiency" instead, but it depends what you want out of the clinics.
(This post was edited by kachoong on Jan 23, 2009, 7:01 PM)
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Post edited by kachoong
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