Types of Courses
*Please note, course topics rotate seasonally. These are examples of courses that have been offered in previous years.
What kinds of courses does Flash Foxy Education offer?
So many! The Flash Foxy Education program is designed to meet you where you’re at and help you gain the skills you need to understand risk and be a responsible climbing partner from your first outdoor climbs to ascending the big walls of your dreams!
1-DAY COURSE
INTRO TO OUTDOOR CLIMBING
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Flash Foxy's Top Rope Climbing 101 course is great for everyone from first-timers to experienced indoor climbers. Top roping is one of the most accessible forms of climbing, and this course will give you all the tools you need to get started or build on the knowledge you already have. We’ll cover basic outdoors skills, technical systems, and provide tips and tricks to help you have the best outdoor climbing experience possible. This program focuses on providing students with maximum active climbing time with minimal ground-school instruction.
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None, beginners welcome!
1-DAY COURSE
RESCUE SKILLS 101
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Flash Foxy’s Rescue Skills 101 course helps you prepare for those inevitable mishaps at the crag, and how to extricate you and your climbing partners from them so you don’t have to call for a rescue. We’ll cover basic methods of ascending a rope to help a climber, assisting a climber through a crux from both above or below, taking over a belay from someone else, and simple rappel techniques. We'll use scenarios to explore improvised solutions and best practices, instead of just teaching a few cookie-cutter drills that might not apply in the real world, and you’ll leave with a solid set of tools to handle most situations that could happen at a crag. This is a skills intensive course, and we’ll focus on learning fundamentals on the ground, then practicing those skills in a low-risk vertical setting with review and feedback from our instructors. Most of our course time will be spent working on skills with very little rock climbing, so come prepared to spend time hanging in your harness!
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Must know how to belay someone on top rope. Some experience top rope climbing, indoors or outdoors is required.
2-DAY COURSE
INTRO TO CRACK CLIMBING
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coming soon!
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coming soon!
2-DAY COURSE
TRAD CLIMBING 101
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Flash Foxy’s Trad Climbing 101 course equips climbers with the skills they need to explore the adventurous practice and spirit of traditional climbing whether you're new to the craft or trying to refine the skills you already have. We’ll cover the essentials like learning how to place stoppers and cams, and we’ll also have candid conversations about risk and how to manage it when the variables start to add up. We'll practice lead belay techniques on tube-style and assisted breaking belay devices, and finish up with the basics of building and cleaning anchors on bolts. Most of our course time will be spent working on skills with very little rock climbing, so come prepared to spend time hanging in your harness!
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Must know how to belay someone on top rope. Participants have top-roped a minimum of ten climbs on at least three separate occasions (indoor or outdoors). Experience sport climbing (indoors or outdoors) and/or following trad climbs is helpful but not required.
1-DAY COURSE
TRAD MENTORSHIP
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Flash Foxy’s Trad Mentorship course is for climbers who are familiar with the technical skills required for placing traditional climbing gear and want to practice essential skills like lead climbing and anchor building/cleaning in a low-risk mock setting. Instructors will provide live feedback on gear placements, belay techniques, rope management, rappelling and anchor building/cleaning. There will be plenty of time to ask questions and build community with other trad climbers!
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Experience placing traditional climbing gear, such as Flash Foxy's Trad Climbing 101, is required. Must know how to belay someone lead climbing. Participants must have some experience lead climbing (indoor or outdoors). Must be able to comfortably top rope 5.9 indoors or 5.6 at the course venue.
2-DAY COURSE
MULTI-PITCH 101
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Flash Foxy’s Multi-pitch 101 course equips climbers with the know-how to climb and descend from routes longer than one rope-length. This course covers essentials like building multi-pitch anchors, taking the roles of leader and follower, rappelling from a multi-pitch route, staying safe and organized during transitions at anchors, and solving basic problems on routes. Our instructors will provide low-risk environments for practice and review the skills you need to continue your practice after the course. We’ll also discuss navigation, what to bring, and how to plan for your adventures. This is a skills-intensive course, and we’ll focus on learning fundamentals on the ground, then practicing those skills in a low-risk vertical setting with review and feedback from our instructors. Most of our course time will be spent working on skills with very little rock climbing, so come prepared with comfortable but capable shoes!
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Must know how to belay someone lead climbing. Participants have top roped a minimum of ten climbs on at least three separate occasions (indoors or outdoors). Must be able to comfortably top rope 5.9 indoors or 5.6 at the course venue. Some experience lead climbing or mock leading, like in Flash Foxy's Sport Climbing 101-102 or Trad Climbing 101-102, is required.
1-DAY COURSE
Alpine prep
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coming soon!
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coming soon!
2-DAY COURSE
INTRO TO BIG WALL
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Have you always gazed up at the tall walls of places like Yosemite Valley, and wondered how to climb them? This clinic will cover the essential skills for ascending walls that are too hard to climb without aid - that's placing and pulling up on gear, rather than making upward progress with just our hands and feet. We'll go through basics of aid climbing with and without ladders, "jugging" or ascending a fixed rope, big wall anchors, hauling your food and overnight gear in a haul bag, as well as packing and planning for multiple days on a wall.
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Must know how to belay someone lead-climbing. Participants have led a minimum of 5 traditional rock climbs. Experience multi-pitch climbing is required. Experience with single-pitch rescue skills including hauling, load transfers, and rope ascension, such as Rescue Skills 101 or SPI Course, is required.