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Destinations >Red Rock, Nevada

RED ROCK, NEVADA
Available October 5 - 24, 2012

Choose from 1 - 9 days of climbing with Acadia Mountain Guides Climbing School in one of America's best rock climbing venues. This is your chance to top off the climbing season with professional rock climbing instruction or guided climbs in the spectacular setting of Red Rock.

Located just outside Las Vegas, Red Rock offers a full range of climbs from short test-piece sport climbs to multi-pitch classics on varnished desert sandstone. Each day presents new challenges from steep faces to striking cracks. Space is limited, reserve now.

Guided Private Climbing
Join us for a day or week climbing on the striking red sandstone towers and canyon walls of Red Rock. Pick your own routes or let or professional guides choose them with you. Either way, Red Rock has routes for everyone. Easy, moderate and difficult climbs from half day to very full days are plentiful.

October is a great time of year to be in the desert. The temperature is ideal, rain is unlikely and day light hours are still plentiful. Acadia Mountain Guides has been leading trips to Red Rock since 1994.

Day Climbs (< 6 pitch climb or multiple shorter climbs) about 7- 8 hours

Cat in the Hat (5.6) • Olive Oil (5.7) • Birdland (5.7) • Dark Shadows (5.7) • Jonny Vegas (5.7) • Frogland (5.8) • Great Red Book (5.8) • Lotta Balls (5.9) • Beulah's Book (5.9)

Day Climb Daily Rate:
1:1 $275.00, 1:2 $175.00 pp, 1:3 $150.00 pp  

Full Day Climbs (> 6 pitch climb or shorter climbs), about 9 - 12 hours

Solar Slab (5.6) • CatWalk (5.6) • Black Dagger (5.7) • Tunnel Vision (5.7) • Olive Oil (5.7) • Frogland (5.8) • Chrimson Crysalis (5.8) • Black Orpheus • (5.9)

Full Day Climb Daily Rate:
1:1 $300.00, 1:2 $200.00 pp, 1:3 $175.00 pp  

Climbing Instruction
Looking to advance your climbing? Learn to set up your own climbs, get started lead climbing, develop self rescue skills, improve your technique or simply broaden your repertoire of belaying and rappeling options. Join the hundreds of others who have accelerated their climbing by taking a lesson or two. Consider that In a day or two a skilled instructor can provide someone with the knowledge and practical skills that took me years to learn on my own." Jon Tierney, IFMGA Mountain Guide.

Instructional Daily Rate:
1:1 $250.00, 1:2 $150.00 pp, 1:3 $125.00 pp, > 4 people $100.00 pp

Red Rock Climbing Package
IMix and Match instructional days with single and multi-pitch climbing days for a full on climbing vacation.

3 Day Red Rock Climbing Package
1:1 $695.00, 1:2 $395.00 pp, 1:3 $325.00 pp

5 Day Red Rock Climbing Package
1:1 $995.00, 1:2 $625.00 pp, 1:3 $525.00 pp

7 Day Red Rock Climbing Package
1:1 $1395.00, 1:2 $850.00 pp, 1:3 $695.00 pp

9 Day Red Rock Climbing Package
1:1 $1795.00, 1:2 $1050.00 pp, 1:3 $895.00 pp

Climbing Instructor Courses available in Red Rock. Join IFMGA guide Jon Tierney for a PCIA (Professional Climbing Instructors Association) sanctioned course. Over the past two decades Jon has made it a personal mission to continually integrate guiding skills and instructional skills with the intent to bring forward the best possible practices for professional climbing instructors. He succeeded in developing the AMGA Top Rope Site Manager program (now Single Pitch Instructor) and is now helping to develop climbing professionals through the PCIA - an organization whose mission is solely focused on developing and sharing best practices in climbing instruction.

PCIA Base Managed Climbing Instructor Course and Exam
Red Rock, Nevada
Course Fee: $395.00, Exam Fee: $100.00

PCIA Single Pitch Climbing Instructor Course and Exam
Red Rock, Nevada
Course Fee: $595.00

Bridge to Single Pitch Climbing Instructor from Base Managed Certification
Red Rock, Nevada
Nevada $175.00

PCIA Lead Climbing Instructor Certification Module
Designed to go beyond the skills of PCIA or AMGA Single Pitch Certification, this is a rigorous two-day endorsement for already proficient instructors that enhances fundamental guiding skills.

This course goes well beyond the SPI course that utilizes lead climbing to set up base managed climbs to more comprehensively address critical skills associated with leading. The PCIA Lead Climbing Instructor module begins with setting up base managed sport or "trad" climbs by leading them and then quickly moves on to include intensive anchor and leading critique, instructor transitions, instructor safeguards while being belayed by a new belayer, belaying a client up as a second, releasing and lowering with self-locking belay devices, belay escapes, and rappel / lowering transitions for single clients. A PCIA Lead Climbing Instructor is expected to be able to confidently provide technical instruction in anchoring, belaying, rappelling, lead climbing and basic rescue.

Like other PCIA courses, it may be taken as a stand-alone module (pre-requisites) or coupled with preceding courses. Upon completion of all course components, certified Single Pitch Climbing Instructors are upgraded to Lead Climbing Instructors. There is no separate exam for this level. Open to PCIA and AMGA certified Single Pitch Instructors. This course is also an excellent front runner to the Rock Instructor Course.

Red Rock, Nevada
Course Fee: $250.00


 

A History of
Leading the way...

Acadia Mountain Guides Climbing School is the preeminent leader in climbing instruction and guiding in Acadia and across Maine. We specialize in designing customized experiences or training for you, your family or your group.

Directed by internationally recognized IFMGA guide Jon Tierney who has been climbing in Acadia since 1982. Jon has over 30 years of local and worldwide experience. The IFMGA requires full AMGA certification as a rock, alpine and ski mountaineering guide.

All AMGCS instructors are certified by either the AMGA or the PCIA and all guides have been trained or certified by the AMGA.

• Since 1994 •
AMGCS is one of 30 AMGA accredited programs in the US and was one of the earliest to achieve accreditation.

AMGCS is the only climbing school in Maine to remain continuously accredited by the AMGA for eighteen years - several years longer than any other local service. We have had one or more full time AMGA certified rock instructors or rock guides on staff each year since 1994 - sixteen years more than any other local school.

• Since 2007 •
AMGCS has the distinction of also being accredited to the highest standards of the Professional Climbing Instructors Association. The PCIA requires all staff to be individually trained and certified.

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