ROCK GUIDING « Sonnie Trotter

ROCK GUIDING

THE SQUAMISH STONEMASTER SERIES

CLIMB ROCKS BETTER, SAFER AND BRAVER THAN EVER!

This summer I am really excited to announce 9 weekend long climbing clinics. 3 beginner/intermediate, 3 intermediate/advanced, and 3 multi-pitch. They will be offered on every Saturday and Sunday, starting on July 21st, and running through to September 15th.

One thing I have noticed during my 3 years of guiding and 15 years of climbing is that there’s so much to learn. My goal is the shorten the learning curve of climbers, so that they can get out confidently and safely onto bigger and better rocks, in Squamish and around the World. I feel that’s what I excel at as a climbing instructor.

I find rock guiding (although always a fun experience), is not the best time or place to be learning new and important skills, the ones we need to be better climbers on our own. The Stonemaster Series run in a hands on, group setting learning environment, in order to learn the important skills with controlled surroundings, so that we can apply them and become more competent overall rock climbers.

The Stonemaster Series is designed to get you completely confident in leading on gear, falling on gear, belaying on gear, building anchors, crack climbing from tight fingers to wide fists, route reading, and a better understanding of the overall system and principals in order to get over any fear that may creep into the mind. We’ll do specialized work to address these issues and make us all Squamish Stonemasters. We will host these clinics with TWO (2) ACMG certified guides to make sure every participant feels safe and secure – creating that feeling is what will allow us all to push our comfort zones.

COST:

$300 per person. 2 day workshop. 4 people minimum.

DATES:

JULY 21st and 22nd.

JULY 28th and 29th.

AUG 4th and 5th.

AUG 11th and 12th.

AUG 18th and 19th.

AUG 25th and 26th.

SEPT 1st and 2nd.

SEPT 8th and 9th.

SEPT 15th and 16th.