Women's Ready to Rock Courses

Posted by Alex West on 24/02/2023
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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

You can contact your local course provider for any local information using thier email address below.

We run courses throughout Spring, Summer and Autumn. You can find a list of dates, venues and instructors below. Simply head over to our booking site, create an account, and purchase your course here.

Venues, Dates and Instructors

 
Lake District

Sunday 21st April 2024

Contact Katie Mackay: 
 

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

 

North Wales (Llanberis, Eryri)

Dates to be confirmed soon

Contact Alice Kerr:

Email - alicecharlottekerr@gmail.com

 
 
Lake District (Northern)

Sunday 23rd June 2024

Saturday 12th October 2024

Contact Esther Foster:

Email - ask@estherfoster.co.uk

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

 

Yorkshire

Dates to be confirmed soon

Contact Katie Mackay: 
 
 

 

Peak District (Hathersage)

Saturday 30th March 2024

Contact Rebecca Coles:

Email - rebecca@roammountains.co.uk

 

Peak District (Western)

Dates to be confirmed soon

Contact Sophie Cheng:

Email - sophie_cheng@hotmail.com

 

Dartmoor

Saturday 27th April 2024

Saturday 8th June 2024

Saturday 3rd August 2024

Saturday 5th October 2024

Contact Charlene Chambers:

Email - charlie@adelong.co.uk

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

 

For any dates above; head over to our booking site, create an account, and confirm your place here.


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