Climbing school training courses in Boston, MA (public, in-house or online)

On this 12-day course join 10 new friends and your instructors on a 30’ pulling boat for an adventure in the Boston Harbor Islands National Park Area. You will explore islands throughout the harbor and sleep on your boat. Learn navigation and seamanship skills. Work together as a team. Challenge yourself as you climb the 62’ Alpine Tower on Thompson Island. Students learn environmental stewardship from their experiences as well as interactions with National Park Rangers and participate...

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On this 12-day course join 9 new friends and your instructors on a sea kayak adventure in the Boston Harbor Islands National Park Area. You will explore by day in your tandem sea-kayak and camp by night on an island in the park. Learn kayak paddling and safety skills with camping and cooking skills. Work together as a team. Challenge yourself as you climb the 62’ Alpine Tower on Thompson Island. Students learn environmental stewardship from their experiences as well as interactions with Nat...

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This course takes place in a slide climber’s paradise, miles from the nearest road. We begin instruction with an introduction to equipment and clothing for warm weather adventures; and the essentials of trip planning and navigation. After packing equipment and food, we head out for a five mile hike to our base camp for the next three nights. By backpacking almost to the foot of the mountain, we’ll gain easy access to numerous large slides.

Our second day includes a climb of one of the eas...

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This course presents the techniques needed for climbing mixed ice and rock terrain. We’ll begin by introducing you to the insecure feeling of climbing rock in mountain boots. Climbing rock in boots requires techniques quite different from the ones used while wearing rock shoes, and helping you to become comfortable in this initially foreign environment is our first priority.

Next, we’ll explore rock climbing while wearing crampons and finally we will introduce “dry-tooling� We provide pl...

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Leading ice is serious business, with litle margin for error. This course will assist experienced ice climbers, who are already competent leaders on rock, in making the transition to leading ice.

The course deals almost entirely with making the complex judgment decisions required to lead ice. You will learn about the many factors governing frequency and location of protection, how to avoid applying rock climbing logic to ice climbing situations, and how to assess the inherently higher ri...

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