Clinics
Check out the line up from the 2010 Festival!
The Warrior’s Way ® Deliberate Commitment Clinic
A challenging climb can be mentally overwhelming until we learn how to plan well, assess the consequences accurately, make deliberate decisions, and commit wholeheartedly to those decisions. This clinic will help you do all of this. You’ll learn how to chunk down a climb into smaller risk events, identify consequences, make appropriate risk decisions, and commit fully to your decisions.
*This clinic is not for beginners who haven’t climbed before. You must have at least 6 months of climbing experience and know the basics knots, belaying, and climbing skills. We’ll do some discussion but the clinic will consist mostly of climbing exercises.
Equipment Needed: Harness, shoes, belay device. Also bring a helmet, draws, and a rope (if you have them).
Clinic length: 4 hours
Escape the Belay
Ever wondered what you would do if your partner was seriously injured while on the wall? How would you get to them without compromising their safety? Join accredited instructors from Jackson Hole Mountain Guides to learn how to safely and properly escape the belay.Equipment: Please bring a harness, helmet, and prussic cord
Equipment: Please bring a harness, helmet, and prussic cord.
Bouldering Technique with Jason Kehl
Trouble impressing the ladies at your local bouldering crag? Head out to the campsite boulders with Jason Kehl to learn how to send even the most technical of problems.
Beginners Clinic
New to climbing? Welcome to the most addictive pastime ever known to man! Take some time to get the basics down, or up rather. Join NOLS instructors Brian Fabel and Chris Agnew for the basics of sport climbing. The course will cover knots, harness, helmets, belaying, communication, and beginning climbing movement. After this clinic you’ll be ready to quit your job and start climbing your way around the world!
Equipment: harness, shoes and helmet.
Ladies Only
Ladies, are you tired of being hit on by every stinky dirty-nailed bum at the crag? Come enjoy a more effeminate afternoon of craging at Wild Iris free of male distractions.
