The Women's Ready to Rock course is designed to help women indoor climbers to make their first moves onto rock by having a fun day out, as well as covering the use of some key skills and equipment.

To take best advantage of these courses, some prior indoor climbing experience would be useful. You will need to be able to put on and adjust a harness, tie in to the rope and belay a climbing partner.

Course Content

A variety of topics will be covered during the day, as well as offering a fun taster to outdoor climbing. Topics may include:

• Types of trad climbing equipment
• Placing good protection
• Building good belays
• Using guidebooks
• Seconding/top roping 

Who is it for?

The Women's Ready to Rock course is ideal for novice climbing club members, students, parents and individuals. Climbers who may have had the odd taster of climbing outdoors and who wish to gain further knowledge and skills. You should already know how to put on a harness, tie in to a rope and belay.  This is a good precursor for anyone contemplating further training; such as a Rock Skills course.

These courses are for women aged 18 or older. More Ready To Rock courses, catering for more people, can be found below:

Ready to Rock Course

Youth Ready to Rock Sport Climbing Course

Youth Ready to Rock Trad Climbing Course

Who will be the instructing?

Course instructors are highly experienced and qualified women climbers, and are members of the AMI (Association of Mountaineering Instructors). The name and contact details of the instructor delivering the course can be found in the information below.

Cost

Courses cost £75 per person, with a discounted rate of £67.50 per person for BMC Members. We are currently running courses with a maximum of 5 people per course.

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Duration

The course will run from 10.00am until 5.00pm

Booking

Please email the instructor directly to book your place, contact details can be found below; be sure to mention the date and venue! If you require one-to-one or additional support please mention this when booking.

Venues, Dates and Instructors

Website - https://www.ktclimbandmountaineering.com/

Saturday 29th July 2023

Contact Esther Foster:

Email - ask@estherfoster.co.uk

Website - https://www.estherfoster.co.uk/rock-climbing

Yorkshire

Sunday 10th September 2023

Peak District (Hathersage)

Saturday 24th June 2023

Contact Rebecca Coles:

Email - rebecca@roammountains.co.uk

Peak District (Western)

Saturday 15th July 2023

Satuirday 26th August 2023

Contact Sophie Cheng:

Email - sophie_cheng@hotmail.com

Dartmoor

Saturday 12th August 2023

Saturday 7th October 2023

Contact Charlene Chambers:

Email - charlie@adelong.co.uk

Website - https://www.adelong.co.uk/guided-climbing/ 

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