Sunday Skill Builders: Open rock wall skills practice

Activity Notes

• Sunday Skills Clinic: Open rock wall skills practice 
• Class date: Sunday, Sept 24 
• Registration opens: Aug 24
• 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
• Mazamas Mountaineering Center (SE 43rd and Stark, Portland)
• Mazamas members $25, non-members $35
• Recommended experience level: beginner/intermediate

New for 2023, the Sunday Skill Builders happen on the second and fourth Sunday of the month, usually from 6 to 9 PM. The second Sunday is more for beginner/intermediate topics, and the fourth Sunday is more for intermediate/advanced techniques.  Registration opens one month before the class. Topics will rotate and repeat, so if you miss one and want to take it, keep an eye out for it again.

Students are generally accepted first-come first-served. Please apply ASAP after the opening of registration to have the best chance of getting in the class.

Rather than a more focused clinic, we decided to open the rock wall for YOU to practice whatever you want. We'll have different practice stations for:

• climbing knots
• top rope climbing, just like at the rock gym
• rappelling
• sport climbing anchor building
• rope ascending with friction hitch, Grigri, and plaquette

Open session, kind of freeform. Spend as much or as little time on each station as you like!

Gear needed: HELMET, harness, belay device, a few locking and snapgate carabiners, friction hitch, shoes suitable for climbing. (You don't need to have all of this gear, we can share.)

Look forward to seeing you, hope you can make it!

John Godino and Andy Nuttbrock, Sunday Skills Clinic coordinators