Multipitch anchor building workshop

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In the first of what I hope will become a series of training sessions, I will run a belay anchor systems workshop on campus on Tuesday 23rd June at 7pm. This will be suitable for anyone who has lead climbed sport routes and clipped lower-offs but doesn’t know how to build–or even what is–a top-belay.

Most routes in the mountains are sport climbs equipped with convenient lower-offs. These take many forms but basically allow the climber to clip quickdraws and be lowered back to the ground. In less sport friendly areas–including several crags in the Blue Mountains–it is necessary to construct your own belay anchor from a collection of trees and shrubs, manky old carrot bolts, threads and gear placements. This is the case on both single-pitch and multi-pitch climbs.

A focus of this session will be on anchors for multi-pitch climbing based on scenarios commonly encountered in the mountains, but will also be applicable at other climbing areas. I will bring in a bunch of gear and we will learn by making different anchoring systems so numbers will be capped at 8.

The content will refer to John Long’s seminal Climbing Anchors book. The club just bought a copy which can be borrowed but I’ll also try scan the relevant chapter to email to attendees.

Any questions email me: reneprovis@yahoo.com.au