SEA CLIFF CLIMBING COURSE

TYPICAL SEA CLIFF CLIMBING COURSE LAYOUT

Each day of our sea cliff climbing course we would introduce the topic of weather, tides, and swell.  And look at how this would affect venue selection, and route planning, and timings.

DAY 1

You will learn everything you need to go sea cliff climbing.  We will look at equipment selection, a sea cliff climbing rack (what is enough), route selection, guidebooks, climbing calls and communication.  Most importantly, we will look at the sea tides and swell, and look at how this affects our route selection.  As with a sea cliff we start at the top, we will show how to rig an abseil, and abseil safely.  We will also look at rope and stance management, as there is a smaller margin for error, these are very important.

DAY 2

Here we get you to put all you have seen on the previous day into practice.  We will also emphasise hanging belays, and most importantly descending safely.  Here we try and give you some of the ownership and decision-making process.  So that you feel at the end of the course that you can go out and do this by yourself.  We will also look at some common problems, prevention, and solutions.

The course content and location tends to be dictated to us by the weather and the tides, so the sea cliff climbing course layout can change.

With this course you can opt for 2, 3 or 4 days.  Depending on how quickly you learn, there is a lot of information to take in.  Especially if you are newer to climbing, we would suggest going for 3 or 4 days.  The course layout is then adjusted for the duration of the course.