Anchor Building Course
Mammoth Lakes

Our Anchor Building Course is built for those looking to learn the art of Rock Anchors. Knowing the fundamentals of building solid anchors is your first step in becoming a self sufficient outdoor climber. This is an in-depth course where you will learn the art of placing traditional rock protection, building top-rope anchors, multi pitch anchor building and much more. This course is meant for someone with some indoor or outdoor climbing experience. Our guides focus on climbing safety and risk management while instructing you to build solid anchors. 

Course Objectives

  • Anchor Fundamentals

  • Climbing Knots

  • Placing Rock Protection

  • Evaluating Trees and Rocks

  • Evaluating and Building Anchors with Bolts 

  • Setting up Top Rope Anchors

Itinerary

  • Meet at the climbing destination at 8:30 a.m.

  • Spend the morning learning to place rock protection and solid three piece anchors

  • Lunch

  • Spend the afternoon building anchors using trees, bolts, and rocks.

  • The day is finished learning traditional multi pitch anchor building

Prerequisites

Previous experience top rope climbing indoors or outdoors.

Group Size

4:1 climber to guide ratio

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