This course covers in detail for top rope anchor building:

• Natural anchorevaluation/selectionProtection while working the edge
• Anchor specific knots
• Anchor construction
• Anchor evaluation
• Breaking down top rope anchors

This course covers in detail for artificial anchor building:

• Rock evaluation
• Placement evaluation/selection
• Anchor specific knots
• Pre-equalized anchor construction
• Self-equalizing anchor construction
• Belay considerations

Course Itinerary:

During the Anchor Seminar students are introduced to the building process as a whole and then practice individual steps as needed.  Once proficiency is reached with the individual steps we bring the pieces together to build and evaluate the students anchors.

BACK

Dear SRCS Crew,

A long overdue thank you to the Gendarme, particularly Travis, for the best climbing instruction (not to mention the most fun) I've ever had.  Travis, you were terrific...patient, encouraging, safe, and just plain enjoyable to spend a couple days with.  I still can't get over how much I learned in two days. 

I'd love to make it back to Seneca to do a little more climbing before the summer is out, but in the mean time, I'll keep trying to stir up some instruction/folks to climb with here in Charlottesville.  Massey, if you ever find yourself on this side of the Alleghenies and want to do some guiding, I'd love it. 
  
Cheers,
Leah

p.s. the swimming hole was awesome!