ROCK
CLIMBING
Anchor Workshop
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1 day workshop with Paul and Kelly
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Date: 16th August 2024
17th April 2025
29th May 2025
Location: Gwynedd/Conwy
Level: Any
Price: £75
Thinking of stepping into the mountaineering world of rock climbing? Then building a solid and safe anchor for your belay is the first fundamental skill for your traditional climbing or advanced scrambling journey. We will cover simple and effective anchor building, how to place good ‘gear’ and how much to place and where to position yourself for top-roping your second.
Hosted by your favourite Rock Climbing Instructor with expert on hand instruction from the best MCI in town. Already have some basic experience? Then get challenged with some more advanced techniques to make you extra slick on your big mountain days.
Sport Climber
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2 day workshop with Paul and Kelly
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Date: 7-8th May 2025
28-29th June 2025
Location: Gwynedd/Conwy
Level: Intermediate
Age: 16+ (under 18 with adult only)
Price: £120
My outdoor sport workshop is ideal for anyone with indoor 'lead' skills that wants to transition into outdoor sport climbing. Sport Climbing is popular in North Wales due to having many great pre-bolted venues, from the Dinorwig slate quarry to the varied Limestone crags down the A55. My weekend workshop will be great for new climbers to 'sport' and those wishing to improve their existing skills.
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This workshop will be about you safely transferring your existing skills and experience to an outdoor environment under supervision and guidance from us as instructors and coaches. This is your taster into the big wide world of sport climbing and you never know you may want to further those skills and become a safe leader/trad climber, if so then this is the perfect adventure to start on that pathway.
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Ideally you will have an understanding of basic movement skills, be able to belay and lead climb indoors efficiently and have your own personal climbing kit which will allow us to get the most out of the day. This workshop will give you the confidence for building your own anchors for lower off, practice balanced clipping positions, how to stay safe and problem solve and the use of aids such as clip sticks to protect hard moves.
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U18 must be accompanied by at least 1 adult.
Some of these courses I'll be helped by my better half Paul Poole!
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Paul has been working in the Outdoor Industry for almost 30 years and set up his own business many years ago to share his love of the mountains with others. He offers rock climbing, scrambling and mountaineering courses in summer, winter in both Wales, Scotland and also travels overseas offering adventures in places like Morocco and the Himalaya.