Intro to Outdoor Top Roping | Minnewaska State Park, NY :: 9/11 + /12

Sat Sep 11 2021 at 08:00 am to Sun Sep 12 2021 at 04:00 pm

Minnewaska State Park | Gardiner

Flash Foxy
Publisher/HostFlash Foxy
Intro to Outdoor Top Roping |  Minnewaska State Park, NY :: 9\/11 + \/12
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About this Event

Flash Foxy’s Intro to Outdoor Top Roping* course is great for everyone from first-timers to experienced indoor climbers. Top roping is one of the most accessible forms of climbing, and this course will give you all the tools you need to get started or build on the knowledge you already have. We’ll cover basic outdoors skills, technical systems, and all the tips and tricks you need to have the best outdoor climbing experience possible.

*Top roping is roped climbing with an anchor already established at the top of the climb. Falls are virtually inconsequential since the rope will catch you almost immediately.


Outcomes By the end of the course, students will:

  • Have a working knowledge of key equipment, including climbing shoes, harnesses, helmets, chalk, climbing rope, slings/cordelette, carabiners, and belay devices.
  • Experience and participate in common practices, including stretching, warming up, reading a route, and working a route.
  • Be proficient belaying a top rope climber with an assisted-braking device, including setting up to belay, taking and giving slack, and lowering a climber.
  • Be proficient climbing up and lowering down a route, including tying-in with the figure eight follow-through and doing system checks with their belayer.
  • Practice building and cleaning common single-pitch anchors, including top-access skills.
  • Practice and receive coaching on basic and intermediate climbing movement.
  • Be knowledgeable about top roping jargon.
  • Connect with other climbers interested in top roping.
  • Through teachable moments throughout the day, re-visit topics and ideas from each of the online learning modules, including on trip planning, landscape and resource stewardship, and community engagement and action.

Prerequisites Experience top roping indoors is helpful but not required.

Flash Foxy events are open to self-identifying women and genderqueer folks.


Check out scholarship info at https://www.flashfoxy.com/fund

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Minnewaska State Park, 5080 Rte 44-55, Gardiner, United States

Tickets

USD 350.00

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