Skills COurses
ClimbingWe can provide a wide range of climbing courses in Pembrokeshire.
We may also be able to create a bespoke course for you if you don’t see what you require listed below.
Self Rescue Skills
Sea cliff skills
Intro to outdoor climbing
Trad Climbing Skills
Multi pitch climbing course
Learn to lead course
Self Rescue Skills
Self rescue skills, improvised rescue or problem solving; whatever you call it, these are essential skills for any trad climber especially those climbers who venture onto sea cliffs, mountain crags or multi pitch routes.
Depending on how many days you book this course for, we will cover various skills such as tying off the belay plate, escaping the system, prussiking up and down a rope and hoisting, along with the tips and tricks to make your climbing life easier! Of course, we’ll also squeeze in some climbing.
This course is available over 1-4 days. We recommend 2 days minimum to ensure the essentials are well practiced.
Sea Cliff Skills
If you’ve never climbed on a sea cliff before or you just want to improve your current skills then this is the course for you. We will focus on keeping yourself safe in a sea cliff environment and cover topics such as abseiling into a sea cliff, hanging belays, use of guidebooks and route interpretation as well as learning about the risks posed by the sea and the tides etc. We will also cover some basic problem solving skills.
This course can be run over 1-2 days depending on your aims; we can also create a bespoke course pairing sea cliff skills with self rescue skills.
Intro to Outdoor Climbing
This course is aimed at anyone who has either no experience of climbing outdoors or limited experience and would be tailor made depending on your previous experience. We will cover the basics of climbing outside and focus on belaying, knot tying and the skills required to be a competent second. We can run this course from a 1 day “taster” experience to see what outdoor climbing is all about or up to 5 days, allowing you to progress your climbing skills and begin your journey to being a competent “second”.
Trad Climbing Skills
We can provide trad climbing skills workshops and courses that cover pretty much any trad climbing skill, whether you want to focus on building bomber belays, have some confidence injected into your gear placements, some input and feedback into your general climbing skills or you simply want to climb different routes to usual! This course would also work well for individuals who either want a skills refresher or have done a bit of climbing and want to check you’re on the right track.
Depending on your aims, this course could be run over 1 day or several.
Multi Pitch Climbing Course
This course will focus on transferring your existing skills into the multi pitch environment or would serve equally well as an intro to multi pitch climbing if you’ve never given multi pitch climbing a try before. We will look at the additional skills required to be efficient and safe on a multi pitch crag.
An intro to multi pitch climbing or a skills refresher could be run over one day, the full course could be offered over 2-3 days depending on location.
Learn to Lead Course
This course is aimed at climbers wishing to progress from being a competent second to being a trad leader. This course would also suit a sports climbing leader wanting to transfer their skills to the trad climbing environment. Depending on your experience and skill set we would cover all the necessary skills to be a safe and efficient lead climber with a focus on placing excellent gear, building bomber belays, confidence in the process and looking after your second.
It is expected that to attend this course you will already be a competent second and capable at belaying a lead climber.
This course can be run over 2-5 days.