Book your place: www.melbourneclimbingschool.com.au/product/climbingqts/

Password: qts2022

Cost: $100 for ClimbingQTs members, join here.

Where: Geboor/Camels Hump Mt Macedon

Schedule: 9am - 3pm (can sometimes finish a bit later than that, depends how long it takes to cover all of the material)

How to get there: Meet at Camel’s Hump car park. Find instructions via thecrag.com

Are you an indoor climber itching to touch some real rock?

The aim of this course is to provide a comprehensive introduction to climbing “Sport” routes in the outdoors, tailored specifically to Melbourne’s rapidly growing indoor climbing community.

For those of you who don’t know – Sport climbing means that there are permanent bolts/hardware in the rock, which has the advantage that a minimum of gear is required to safely climb on them (you don’t need to buy as much gear to start climbing in the outdoors, yay!). Since the fixed hardware is specially designed for this purpose, the techniques to learn are much simpler than traditional – “trad” – climbing, and can be comprehensively covered in just one day.

Prior Knowledge: The participants start this session with knowledge of indoor “lead” climbing, and will have a lead-pass from any indoor climbing gym.

The only piece of equipment you need to own before this course is a standard climbing harness suitable for lead-climbing indoors. All other climbing safety equipment is provided by Melbourne Climbing School, however if you own any of the following equipment please bring it along with you – learning with your own equipment is far better and will provide a great start to your outdoor climbing experience!

• Helmet *

• One locking biner suitable for belaying

• One belay device

• If you own a chalk bag, rope, quickdraws, slings and any other sport-climbing equipment please let us know prior to the course, and we can plan to teach you using your own gear instead.

* Helmets are worn on all outdoor Melbourne Climbing School courses – but as with all of the other climbing safety equipment, we have these if you don’t own one, and we will not charge any extra for their use on the course.

Closed footwear such as tennis shoes are fine for learning on if you do not own climbing shoes.

BYO: Food, water and weather appropriate clothing.

This course will run over one day from # to # and is guided by Aaron Lowndes (he/him) from Melbourne Climbing School.

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ClimbingQTs is an LGBTQIA+ friendly social club where climbers have the opportunity to mix and socialise. All levels are welcome from beginner to advanced.

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