Granite – basic climbing course
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Welcome to the vertical world. Climbing is a fantastic activity. It can be week long adventures at high altitudes, steep overhangs, beautiful cracks in fine granite or relaxed climbing on easy routes a nice summer evening. Whatever you aim for, the basics are the same. It all starts with a basic course.
And with beautiful solid rock in an inspiring environment, Bohuslän (West Sweden) is one of the finest areas in all of Northern Europe to climb, and our basic course is a ticket to something that might become a lifelong love affair.
The course lasts for two full days at one or two of Bohuslän’s appropriate crags. The purpose of the course is to, under safe and inspiring forms, learn the basics of rope handling and safety work for climbing, so that you can continue to toprope climb with a friend or to follow in a rope team. During the course you will also have the opportunity to get a “green card” that will allow you to climb and belay indoors in most climbing gyms in Sweden.
Our basic course follow the norms of the Swedish Climbing Association and is led by an UIAA authorized climbing instructor.
You learn
• Place and evaluate cams and nuts
• Use and evaluation of glue and drill bolts
• Use and evaluation of protection in solid objects such as trees and rocks
• Strengths and limitations of climbing equipment
• Equalization when building anchors
• Repelling
• Belaying for toprope and leader
• Movement on the rock and climbing techniques
• Emergency preparedness
• And much more
Moving on
The next natural step after a basic course is to learn how to lead. This means that, unlike toprope climbing, the route is climbed without a toprope anchor, and the climber instead secures himself to pre-placed or self-placed protection on the way up. You can learn that either on our sport climbing course “Bolt” or intermediate course “Nut”.
Lunch / coffee
Please let us also fix your lunch and coffee. Order for an extra cost of 200 SEK per day. Our climbing lunch is an organic pasta salad with chicken, served with dressing, freshly baked bread and butter. We round that off with mom Lena’s homemade organic cinnamon buns and a coffee. Maybe even an espresso.
Dates
Please check available dates under “Boka”.
Other dates on request for groups of at least 4 people.
Available dates
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Testimonials
We are very satisfied with the course. Robban was very nice and explained in a good way. It was good that there was a focus on safety. You even arranged good weather.
Previous experience
You need no previous experience to attend a basic climbing course with us, but you must be at least 15 years old. It is also an advantage to have tried toprope climbing before. You can do it on any of our rock climbing days, if you wish.
Time & place
We meet at 08.00 on the first day of the course in our center, UpplevelseLadan, in Gustafsberg, where we start the course. Then we will transfer with our minibus to the crag. We have an opportunity to go through some of the content of the course indoors, at our center, if weather is a preblem. We expect to finish at 17:00 both days.
Included in the price
• Course content as specified above
• Transport during the course
• All necessary climbing equipment
• Green card for indoor climbing (at approved course)
• Insurance
Equipment
We will bring:
• All necessary climbing equipment (if you have equipment of your own that you want to use, please feel free to bring it)
• Lunch (if you have ordered from us)
You bring:
• Clothes to wear when climbing
• Rain- wind protective clothes
• Insulation layer for chilly weather
• Lunch (unless ordered by us)
• Snacks / extra energy
We are very satisfied with the course. Robban was very nice and explained in a good way. It was good that there was a focus on safety. You even arranged good weather.