The American Alpine Club Craggin’ Classics are back and as part of our commitment as National Title Sponsor, CAMP is proud to be offering an intensive clinic on one of our favorite topics … Huge Days with a Light Rack. This is an intensive clinic focused on making multi-pitch rock climbing faster and more efficient so we can set our sights on bigger objectives over time.
You can find the curriculum for the clinic below. Each clinic features a short classroom session followed by field work where we will be able to focus on hands-on skills and tactics.
Please let us know if you have any questions. We hope to see you out there!
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There are few things more fascinating or fulfilling than proficiently negotiating technical terrain on huge rock routes. Here, proficiency is the key … when everything we know and all the training we do comes together to create a very particular kind of accomplishment. This clinic is designed to explore the strategies and tactics involved in trying to improve our efficiency on big multi-pitch rock routes so we can ultimately move faster and climb higher. We will be studying the skills, the gear, and our objectives in order to distill this vast subject matter down to a digestible set of strategies and tactics that we can exercise in our regular climbing and training routines. The CAMP athletes teaching these clinics are absolute experts on the subject with bold first ascents around the world and numerous speed records across the United States from the Naked Edge in Eldorado Canyon to the Nose on El Capitan.
Curriculum
The following includes all of the material we will cover. For the majority of the clinic, we will spend time in the field working on hands-on implementation of the skills, strategies and tactics.
The Skills
- Moving proficiently over rock
- Climb fast and keep moving
- Placing protection
- Improv aid climbing
- Anchors and belay transitions
- Setting anchors
- Blocking v swapping leads
- Effective transitions
- Descending
- Have a plan
Training
- Train like you climb
- No sloppy training
- No sloppy seconding
- Keep moving
- Count pitches
- Try to onsight everything
- Train on multi-pitch terrain
- Train on trad gear
Gear
- Choosing the right rack
- Don’t skimp
- Skimp where you can
- Using the right ropes
- Consider the descent
Planning & Preparation
- Choosing your partners
- Strengths and weaknesses
- Develop a strategy
- Who climbs what?
- Know the descent
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