GUIDED CLIMBING DAY

The grades will be determined by ability, but the day will be designed to maximise your experience rather than pushing to a particular grade.

Climbing on natural protection requires a large number of skills to be made relatively safe. The risk of protection failure can never be fully removed. We can however learn to qualify our judgements, plan our actions and match our abilities to the terrain in order to undertake climbing as safely as possible.

The weather can change quickly and so synthetic outdoor clothing is ideal as it dries quickly and retains thermal efficiency to some degree when wet. A lightweight waterproof jacket and a beanie style hat are useful. Footwear should be robust in order to cope with some rough ground, approach style shoes are ideal.

Enough food for each day, including snacks and plenty to drink. A flask is always a welcome treat. Some sunscreen. A shoulder bag/rucksack to carry your things.

You should try to bring your own comfortable rock shoes and chalk bag, everything else can be provided by us. If you already have some equipment of your own feel free to use the things you are most familiar with.

Probably. A comfy shoe is better for spending more time on your feet. We have some you can borrow if you can’t find any of your own.

We will aim to start the day at 9am and finish around 5pm.

Unfortunately not, dogs get agitated, distract from activity and livestock may be present.

Unfortunately not, our group size will be large enough and we cannot extend our care to non-participants.

We only use instructors that we trust, and have nationally recognised qualifications.

Children age 14+ can participate IF the have an adult with them that is also participating. Please contact us if you are thinking of booking on anyone under the age of 18.