Fox Mountain Guides

and Climbing School

The Southeast's only AMGA Accredited Climbing School

Rock, Ice Climbing Guides and Rock Climbing Courses in North Carolina

Rock Climbing Instructor Workshop

Instructor Training

This workshop is for recreational climbers interested in working on summer camp climbing programs, guide services or organizations like Outward Bound as a rock climbing instructor. The workshop will cover risk management skills and practices as well as many technical skills associated with being a model climbing instructor. This course will teach the climbing instructor how to effectively manage a group of novice climbers at a single pitch climbing site. We cover all the topics listed below showing new up to date, simplified methods and techniques in the world of climbing instruction, setups, equipment and rescue.

This workshop has no certification linked to it and is not an 'AMGA training or certification' course. For AMGA Climbing Instructor and Guide training click here. This course is great for rock climbing instructors wanting to get a base of skills before going onto the AMGA Single Pitch Instructor Course.

Day One Outline:

	USFS Special Use Permit regulations orientation (Pisgah Areas commercial use permit)
	Professional and ethical topics facing the climbing instructor
	Leave No Trace skills associated with commercial group climbing
	Effective group management
	Belay devices, belaying and teaching correct belaying techniques to novice groups
	Teaching climbing movement and coaching climbing
	Climbing equipment, selection, maintenance and care
	Common Knots and Hitches

Day Two Outline:

	Group climbing site selection and considerations
	Climbing anchors for instruction
	Base Managed Belay single pitch setups and considerations
	Rappelling, site selection, setups and considerations (releasable systems)
	Climber Rescue (not 'self rescue'-this is instructor training!). Pick offs and raises (2:1, 2:1 assisted, 3:1 and 3:1 assisted). Common problem avoidance and management.

Course Prerequisites:

Applicants must have taken our Intermediate Level Courses or can climb 5.6, rappel and have experience building artificial and natural anchors.

Number on course: Maximum of 8:1 client to instructor ratio

Course length: Two days

Course dates: Click Here for dates and booking information

Cost*:

4+: $220 per person (four+ to one instructor, two days)

3: $280 per person (three to one instructor, two days)

2: $350 per person (two to one instructor, two days)

1: $500 per person (one to one instructor, two days)

*The costs are based on the actual amount of participants on the course. Courses normally run at 4+ people but in the event the courses run with less people the costs will be as shown above. Participants that do not wish to take the course with low numbers (because of the cost) can change their course to another date. The upside to lower numbers is of course a more personal course.

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Rock Climbing Guides, instruction and courses offered by the Southeast’s only AMGA Accredited Climbing School,

Fox Mountain Guides and Climbing School North Carolina NC.