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Learn from the master himself, Darren Knezek, essential sport climbing techniques such as; safe clipping, rope management, how to fall, and how to catch falls, during this rare climbing workshop. This is not a top-roping event, you will be leading! Boost your confidence on the wall, and take your climbing to the next level. Course dates TBD. Spots are limited so sign up today!!
Have you ever wanted to bolt a climbing route?
Have you ever wondered how the bolts are installed for your favorite sport climbs? Have you ever looked at a piece of blank rock and wished there was a route up it? Do you want to leave a lasting legacy for the climbing community?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, then get ready to learn how to bolt a rock climb from me, Darren Knezek, in an exclusive and personalized two-day course. This course is a rare opportunity to explore the art of bolting sport climbs, guided by my 35 years of experience and the establishment of over a thousand climbs across Utah. I am excited to share my expertise and help you become a skilled and confident bolter.
This comprehensive course will teach essential techniques and strategies, starting with rock assessment. I will guide you in identifying the next 5-star line, which portions of a rock face would be suitable to bolt, distinguishing between good and poor-quality rock, and identifying objective hazards like hanging flakes, razor-sharp edges, and loose blocks.
Next, we'll delve into anchor placement, where you'll discover the best methods for anchoring, including placement locations, spacing considerations, and selecting the right bolts and hardware for maximum safety.
Once we've covered route selection and anchor placement, we'll dive into the practical side of bolt installation. You'll develop the skills to identify ideal locations for bolts that enhance safety and climbing enjoyment. More importantly, you'll gain hands-on experience using cordless hammer drills to install bolts, hangers, and anchors correctly. This course is all about real skills; no monkey wrenches here.
When it comes to climbing, safety is paramount. That's why we'll be dedicating a significant portion of the course to discussing safety strategies. From harness techniques to gear usage, from handling loose rock to best practices for rope management, we'll cover it all. Our goal is to ensure your safety as you establish a new route and to ensure that all the climbers lining up to do your new 5-star classic are safe.
Ethical considerations are also important, and we will explore ethics and guidelines surrounding bolting and climbing. You will learn about Leave No Trace principles and local regulations to ensure responsible climbing practices.
So Why Should You Do This?
This course will equip you with a deep understanding of essential techniques for safe and effective bolting. In a focused and supportive environment, you will gain confidence in responsible bolting practices and ethical climbing principles. Under my mentorship, you can learn this exciting new skill and open a whole new world of climbing for yourself.
The Details:
Duration: Two Days
Location: Determined based on applicant preferences.
Instructor: Darren Knezek – Experienced bolter with over 35 years of climbing and route development in Utah.
Equipment Provided: Cordless hammer drills, bolts, hangers, anchors, and all necessary safety gear. All hardware for the route is included in the course fee.
Pricing
Individual: $999 per person
Group of Two: $750 per person
What to Bring
Appropriate Climbing Gear: Harness, helmet, rope, comfortable approach shoes.
Water Bottle and Snacks: Stay hydrated and energized during the course.
For more info:
Text - 801-687-4589
Email - utahclimbing@yahoo.com
Kelty has incorporated their signature suspension system into the Red Cloud 110, which effectively distributes weight and reduces strain on your back and shoulders. The padded shoulder straps and back panel provide additional comfort, while the sternum strap ensures the pack stays secure even on challenging terrains. The torso is adjustable from 17" to 23.5" The pack also features a rain cover to protect your gear from the elements. With its combination of functionality, comfort, and durability, the Kelty 110 Hiking Pack is an excellent choice for all your hiking needs.
A perfect choice for all-around use in climbing, bouldering, gym sports, and beyond. Chunky Enigmachalk can be used loose in a chalk bag or packed into a refillable ball or sock for a more controlled application. Chunky chalk helps climbers, gymnasts, weight-lifters, etc. to avoid over-chalking and helps minimize chalk dust in the air.
Calm your mind and ignite your power to make the move with this spice powered herbal chalk.
Chalk is going to dry out your hands. That's it job, right? Well, minimize the harsh effects of the chalk while stimulating the mind with our Herbal Chalks. These ultra grind chalks have the friction to get you through the crux, with an added kick to put your mind back in the action.
Get a little bit of encouragement, right in your chalk bag!
What's this all about???
The organic extracts in this chalk contain natural sources of menthol. Sooth your sore finger tips, worn thin from days of throwing yourself at a rock, so the last pitch is as fun as the first!
Did we mention it smells good??? Fire Chalk smells like Christmas morning. Offer your belayer a pleasant aromatic greeting at the end of a hot, hard, pitch. No ones likes a stinky sweat ball.
JTree Dave Says:
The scent provides aroma therapy every time you chalk up. I know it sounds silly, but once you get hooked, you won't be able to pull a run-out crux move with out it! ...wait, maybe that's a bad thing.
Gymnasts
Take one of our handy, resealable, standup pouches of your favorite Herbal Chalk to the gym!
Get the mental edge over your competition, and be the envy of the gym!
Climbers love this, and you will too!
Photoshop artwork of the chalks by Rich Taylor! richtaylorphotography.com
Ultra-light multi-function device for mountaineering, rope access work, rescue and self-rescue. Compact and easy to handle, it has three different modes of operation: ascender, pulley or progress-capture hauling pulley.
Main features:
the new design and the different colours of the side plates make using it even more intuitive;
it allows ascending the rope in accordance with EN 567 / EN 12841-B standards (ascender mode);
thanks to the ability of locking the cam, it can be used as a simple pulley for lifting or transferring a load in accordance with the EN 12278 standard (pulley mode);
it allows the direct lifting of a load, the creation of hauling systems and the rescue or self-rescue of a person, as in the case of a victim fallen into a crevasse (progress-capture hauling pulley mode);
when used in pulley mode, the rope is free to run in both directions; instead, when the hauling-pulley mode is used, the rope can only run in one direction and it is locked in the opposite one;
switching from one mode to another is intuitive and it can even be done with gloves on or while operating in difficult conditions;
its compact size and light weight make it an ideal companion to carry on the harness at all times, for any eventuality.
Caution! This equipment is not a fall arrester (EN 353-2 / EN 12841-A) nor can it be used for self-belaying while climbing.
The NEOS Adventurer Hi Overshoes are non-insulated and fit snugly over your shoe or boot. The Adventurer offers mid-leg protection with a nylon upper, perfect for trudging through the mud or snow. These NEOS have a deep traction sole and is snow shoe compatible. The Adventurer is lightweight to prevent foot and leg fatigue with a wide, easily opened gusset.
The NEOS Voyager™ Mid Overshoe has a 500 denier nylon upper with waterproof membrane. Also features a perma outsole which offers good traction in tough weather conditions. These VNN1 NEOS Overshoes are lightweight to prevent foot and leg fatigue. They have a wide, easily opened gusset providing ease in putting on or taking off overshoes.
The X-All Mountain is a technical ice tool designed to handle everything the big mountains throw at it. The balance and geometry are optimized to climb vertical ice with unparalleled proficiency and the rest of the features allow the tool to adapt to the varied terrain typical of advanced alpinism. The multi-part head can be configured with a hammer or adze. The three-part handle can be configured to fit hand size and the terrain being climbed. The steel spike is big enough to function as a cane and has a hole that is large enough to clip a carabiner for use with lanyards.
The MTN STICK is design for customizing. Each individual has different needs. We anticipated the more popular needs and added these accessories in each box. Using your imagination can give you a unique tool that can improve you experience and safety in the wild. The design provide unparalleled strength endurance and utility. This is a multi tool for the outdoor enthusiast.
Each MTN Stick comes with -
The MTN Stick
Optional carbide trekking pole tip can be attached
Optional atraumatic rubber tip
Powder Snow Basket
Hard Snow Basket
Optics Platform
2 1/4-20 D-ring Screws
Specs -
Weight 17.5 oz
Working tripod load - 40lbs
Machined 6061 Aluminum and anodized for long life
Col Mountain Tech Custom adjustable Clamp
Extendable shaft makes for easy adjustments between 36 and 55 inches total length.
Robust Aluminum Tip that can be use alone or the carbide rubber tip may be glued on
100% Carbon poles
EVA foam handle and EVA foam piston for silent travel.
Adjustable strap
Backpackers, hunters, and photographers will see this as a game changer
Find the best Maple Canyon guidebook for your climbing adventures. Utah Climbing offers comprehensive guides, tips, and gear for climbing enthusiasts.
This is THE local's guidebook and highlights 13 years of new route development… information previously unavailable. The book contains over 550 rock climbing routes in Maple Canyon, as well as information on the following nearby climbing areas: Log Canyon, New Canyon, Round Valley, Axhandle Canyon, and Mt. Nebo Foothills.
Climbing Guidebook to Maple Canyon Utah. With over 415 color pages, this guide covers over 500 climbing routes in Maple as well as 5 other climbing areas close by.
Written by one of the original founders of Maple Canyon, it includes the correct names as well as the correct grades for all of the climbs.
Photos for all of the cliffs and climbs with ALL of the bolts locations marked on the topos instead of just a sloppily draw in line for the climbing routes so that you can find the EXACT location of your chosen route.
It also includes the history of the climbing and many stories from the first ascentionists.
This guide book covers all of Little Cottonwood Canyon, as well as Ferguson Canyon, and Lone Peak and contains more than 1677 routes, A Granite Guide is the most comprehensive guide to Salt Lake’s granite canyons available.
From single pitch classics to multipitch alpine adventures, A Granite Guide is your source for climbing above Salt Lake City, Utah.
This book contains detailed descriptions of 73 hiking and bicycling trails in and around Utahs capital. The trails range in length from 1 mile to 13 miles (round trip), and they are all lavishly illustrated with nearly 400 colorful photographs and maps. All of the trailheads lie within 50 miles of Salt Lake City, and nearly all of them can be reached with an ordinary passenger car. The hikes include trails into the five federally designated wilderness areas near Salt Lake as well as walks into the migratory bird refuges on the east side of the Great Salt Lake. The bicycle rides include many mountain bike trails into the mountains above the city as well as paved bike paths that meander for miles along the scenic rivers of the Wasatch Front. Salt Lake Citys Trails is David Days most recent work; it follows his immensely popular Utahs Incredible Backcountry Trails.
The long-awaited second edition of Courtney Purcell's classic guide to hiking and climbing in Zion National Park has been expanded to cover routes to more than 150 different summits with Utah's most spectacular national park. The guide also shares routes to nearly 70 additional summits scattered across Southwest Utah.
Introducing the newest, most comprehensive, and best southwest technical slot canyoneering book ever produced by Michael R. Kelsey–or any other author for that matter! In this new Updated 2nd Edition of the Technical Slot Canyons to the Colorado Plateau you’ll find 368 pages documenting about 120 major technical canyons plus many more smaller (though no less challenging) tributary slots. Several of the canyons in this edition have never been published before. Divided into nine different geographic regions spread out through both Southern Utah and Northern Arizona (with a couple in western Colorado), this book will provide many seasons worth of gear wearing, skin scrapping, heart pounding canyoneering adventure to any moderate to expert canyoneer. With 411 full color fotographs, this book is also an amazing canyoneering photo pictorial–if the books format was larger you’d want to use it as a coffee table book in the off season.
This new 3rd Edition combines a hiking & travel guide to Utah’s Henry Mountains and Robbers Roost Country, an area made famous by Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch. This book combines high mountain climbing as well as deep desert canyon and slot canyon hiking. About 2/3’s of the book is devoted to hiking, with 42 mapped hikes or climbs. Some of the canyon hikes are technical in nature with rappelling through some of the best slot canyons in the world (some of these technical slots are new to this book and aren’t in the author’s other book, Technical Slot Canyon Guide to the Colorado Plateau). The last third of the book concentrates on the history of Indians, early white explores, ghost towns, ranches (including the Robbers Roost Ranch), miners, and a chapter on the Life & Legend of Butch Cassidy. It also has sections on geology, wild horses & burros, plus the latest on the Henry Mountains wild buffalo herd
Here’s a description of the new 2nd Edition: This is a guide to Utah’s best-known mountain & mountain hike, Mt. Timpanogos. This book’s emphasis is on hiking and climbing to the mountains dozen or so peaks, and to the 7 high cirque basins. For this 2nd Edition, the author spent about 14 months re-climbing almost all peaks in summer & winter; but the winter of 2018-19 was very snowy, and there weren’t many times when it was safe to climb with big time snow, and big avalanches! But in the process, he re-learned how to climb in winter–actually it was in the spring months–but it was winter up there! So this writers knowledge of winter climbing got pretty good after a few years absence. Other subjects are also covered. These include 2 chapters on the history of Provo and American Fork Canyons, Robert Redfords’ Timp Heaven, then Sundance Ski Resorts, hydroelectric power plants, the Heber Creeper–now the Heber Valley Railway, the former historic Annual Timp Hike, Timp Cave, 4 airplane crashes, hiking deaths and even murders on the mountain (Ted Bundy left one of his girls in American Fork Canyon!). Also, geology, Timp’s Rocky Mountain goats, and newly planted big horn sheep & wild turkeys are discussed.
This edition is basically the same as of the 1st, but a number of new hikes to fotogenic places and to rock art sites have been added, plus more local history. This book has brief stories of Charley Steen, the guy most-responsible for Utah’s Uranium Boom; Moab’s own Swanny Kerby and his professional rodeo career; John Romjue the best moonshiner in southeast Utah; plus more history about making moonshine whiskey in the canyons during the 1920’s & early ’30’s; the Moynier brothers sheep outfit, and more. Also added, are lots more hikes to rock art sites. One example, there are now at least 6 known faces panels and they’re called the 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, and 13 Faces Panels, and they’re all in or near The Needles District. This means they all could have been painted by the same Michelangelo! Something to think about. Also, Moab has to be the rock art capital of the world!
Introducing the enlarged & updated 6th Edition of the book, Hiking and Exploring the Paria River. This edition includes 64 more pages of new hiking areas, fotographic tours, and local history. The new page count is 448. Focusing on the Paria River drainage, this guidebook covers the entrenched canyons from Bryce Canyon south to the Vermillion Cliffs and Lee s Ferry. Among the 56 maps, you ll find new information on the Between the Creeks Slots, Hackberry Canyon, Buckskin Gulch, a new route into the middle of the Lower Paria River Gorge, Coyote Buttes, The Wave, the Sand Hills, and White Pockets. In preparation for this new edition, the author interviewed a number of local old timers to expand on the guidebook s already rich regional history. Also added to this 6th Edition, is an enlarged section on John D. Lee along with new information about the Mountain Meadows Massacre and why Lee was sent to the Colorado River to establish a ferry. The reason was, Brigham Young and the Church leadership wanted to create a Mormon Wagon Road into Arizona to establish a mission to the Indians, colonize new lands before the gentiles got it, plus create a corridor to Mexico in case the Mormons were run out again. Adding the Mormon Wagon Road to Arizona is stretching the boundaries of the Paria River, but it seems necessary so that readers can better understand local Southern Utah politics and history. A new segment with 18 pages covers the route, the waterholes and the first 4 settlements created by the Mormons in the late 1870 s along the Little Colorado River.
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