Join Arc'teryx partner, Flash Foxy, in a series of education programs in select cities across the United States. Flash Foxy believes that all climbers deserve access to quality education that equips them with the skills they need to enjoy climbing.
Introducing the Salt Lake City Flash Foxy Education Program stop!
This "Intro to Outdoor Climbing" course is great for everyone from first-timers to experienced indoor climbers. Reserve your spot at the link below!
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Clinic 1:Â Anchoring Building Clinic
Date:Â April 26th
Time:Â 4pm - 8pm
Location:Â SLCÂ Bouldering Project (bouldering gym)
Meet up at the Bouldering Project climbing gym for an Intro to Anchor Building clinic. In this intro to anchors clinic we will be going over building and cleaning anchors on bolts. With capacity to review more advanced anchors that goes into a variety of theoretical anchor scenarios based on students interest.
Clinic 2: Self Rescue Techniques Â
Date:Â April 27th
Time:Â Vary 9am-2pm
Location: Crag - TBD
For the self rescue clinic we will be discussing and practicing various knots, belay escapes, raising/lowering techniques, counterbalance descents/ascents, station transfers, and more!Â
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What you'll get out of these clinics:Â
- Have a working knowledge of key equipment, including climbing shoes, harnesses, helmets, chalk, climbing rope, carabiners, and belay devices.
- Experience and participate in common practices, including stretching, warming up, reading a route, and working a route.
- Be proficient belaying a top rope climber with an assisted-braking device, including setting up to belay, taking and giving slack, and lowering a climber.
- Be proficient climbing up and lowering down a route, including tying-in with the figure eight follow-through and doing system checks with their belayer.
- Practice and receive coaching on basic and intermediate climbing movement.
- Be knowledgeable about top roping jargon.
- Connect with other climbers interested in top roping.
PrerequisitesÂ
Experience top roping or bouldering indoors is helpful but not required.
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About Flash FoxyÂ
Flash Foxy originated to empower women climbers and offer a virtual space to connect over climbing, being outside together and building community. The inaugural Women’s Climbing Festival in 2016 helped the group establish an alternate climbing space in real life that did not center cisgender men. The climbing community is not static and Flash Foxy has adapted over the years to meet the needs of its membership as they grow, change and continue to self-actualize.Â
Presently, Flash Foxy stands with the women and genderqueer community - including but not limited to gender non-conforming folks - who need a space to pursue their love of the sport without having to deal with historic barriers to access.
Proceeds from this event will benefit Color the Wasatch.Â
