Hand jams, jugs, crimpers, trads, underclings, pitches, overhangs, crags, hypercams, backclips, belaying, and hi sides!
Learn Climbing & Belaying Techniques from the Best!
Does all this sound like a foreign language? It won’t at the end of our Rock n’ Jam trip. For two weeks you’ll travel all over West Virginia and Virginia to some of the best climbing sites in the east coast and even the world. Learn
technique and gain experience while living the dream life as a
climbing “bum”.
Click here for our full list of Summer 2010 dates and tuition.
2010 ROCK & JAM DATES:
Ages 14-17 (14 Days): July 4th-17th; July 18th-31st
FULL PRICE TUITION: $1,895
Trip Highlights
- Rock Climbing through Virginia and West Virginia
- Rafting Class IV Whitewater
- Exploring the incredible climbing walls of the New River Gorge
- Trail Work in association with the New River Alliance of Climbers & the National Park Service
- Learning and using the Basics in safe and effective climbing techniques
- Learning knots, anchor set up, belay techniques, and mock-leads
- Tent Camping
- Outdoor living skills & back country cooking
- 900′ Zip Line
Trip Description
Never been climbing before? Here’s your opportunity to not only learn proper belay methods and the techniques to get you up the rock, but most importantly, you’ll know how to do it safely and confidently. Designed as a skill-based progression into the high angle realm, you’ll get inducted into the school of hard rock with talented, experienced and devoted climbing instructors and trip leaders.
Never been to the greatest rock climbing paradise of the east coast? How about rafting down Class IV through the finest whitewater this side of the continent? The New River Gorge (NRG) in West Virginia – considered by many as the outdoor capitol of the east – has been the pinnacle of eastern outdoor pursuits since the beginning of outdoor sports themselves. Despite being one of the oldest gorges in the world (cutting through 325 million year old rock!), its rapids and incredible climbing walls are far from tame and ranked among the best in the world. An opportunity to see this first hand as a climber and river runner is an adventure not to be missed.
Click here for our full list of Summer 2010 dates and tuition.
