This two-day field trip introduces you to placing nuts, hexes, cams and other removable protection. In addition you will practice building anchors and climbing above placed pro on easy single pitch climbs. We will also consider how to rappel while helping a student and any extra considerations this brings. By this time you need to have a lead card from a climbing gym.

Homework:

Prior to this lecture, please review this entire course page and it's content and also read/watch the following reference materials:

Multipitch Anchors handout

Pretty good and slightly humorous video that goes over some basics that we will be considering. Also some interesting racking techniques that you should consider.

This video is pretty awesome. A quick note for this video is that the force placed outwardly on a rock is about double the force of the cam when pulling straight out. So for the first break test it placed about 22kn on that rock that moved! wow thats a lot of force!! Also this is a good heads up for how carefully you make your placements and why I don't climb at vantage! Also here a doc that shows the forces generated in a fall. Generally under 5kn! These cams are very strong.

FT1 | RockI

Rock Pro!

Multi-pitch Trad Anchors-Copy.pdf

This video is going to be more helpful for those wanting to lead intermediate climbs or push their limits on trad rather than the basic climbs.