Event Details

Lectures will be offered at the  online.

Field Days will be in the Front Range.

CMC Office

303-279-3080

cmc.techclimbingschool@gmail.com

Registration is by application.  Link to application.

All applications Due by Jan 31st, 2022. Notifications for acceptance will be released by February 8th, 2022.  Once you are admitted you will be given a passcode to register for this event.  Class size is limited.

Alpine Climbing School provides you with the skills needed to participate safely on non-glaciated CMC mountaineering climbs within Colorado in all weather conditions. These skills include navigation and route finding, planning and organizing climbs, rock climbing skills for following on fourth and fifth class routes, and snow climbing skills up to and including roped climbing with crampons.

Pre-requisites:

• Alpine climbing is hard work and requires a high degree of fitness. At a minimum, applicants should possess current fitness to comfortably complete CMC C level hikes.


• This is not a beginner course. You are expected to have completed the following
  
  
  
  • Wilderness Trekking School (WTS) or waiver
  
  
  • Navigation 1
  
  
  • Basic Rock or have received a waiver
  
  
  
  

This is the team track for Alpine Climbing School. That is, you commit to a block of dates and work with the same instructors and team throughout the course . If these dates do not work for you, the modular system is the alternative; look for each of the individual classes in the CMC Calendar.

You must commit to ALL of the following dates plus four trips that will be scheduled with your team.  The additional trips will include a high peak ridge climb, rock climbing day, couloir climb, and a high peak graduation climb that will be the capstone of your course. These trips will be schedule with your team. Please try to keep your calendar open. Successful completion of all classes and trips is required to graduate from Alpine Climbing School. In addition, please keep your calendar open in case we need to reschedule field days or trips due to weather.

2022 Dates for Team Track Session B:

Orientation/Risk Management Lecture (American Mountaineering Center) Tuesday, March 1, 6-8:30pm

Navigation 2/Trip Planning Lecture (Online) Tuesday, March 8, 6-8:30pm

Navigation 2 Field Day (Decker's Areas) Saturday, March 13, all day

Snow Navigation/Mapping Tools Lecture (Online) Tuesday, March 22, 6-8:30pm

Int Snow/Backcountry Winter Travel Lecture (Online) Tuesday, March 29, 6-8:30pm

Int Snow Field Day (St Mary's Glacier) Saturday April 9, all day

Intermediate Rock/Rescue 1/Anchors Lecture (Online) Tuesday, April 19, 6-8:30pm

Int Rock/Anchors/Rescue Field Day 1 (Castlewood Canyon) Saturday, April 30, all day

Int Rock/Anchors/Rescue Field Day 2 (Castlewood Canyon) Sunday, May 1, all day

Advanced Snow Lecture (Online) Tuesday, May 3, 6-8:30pm

Advanced Snow Field Day (Winter Park) Saturday, May 7, all day

Ridge Climb Trip, TBD, April

Couloir Climb Trip, TBD, mid-end May

High Peak Grad Climb Trip, TBD, mid June – early July

Cancellation Policy

We will be complying with CMC's COVID-19 protocol, as found on our website (https://www.cmc.org/COVID-19andCMCProgramming.aspx). The following guidelines will be followed during our courses:

​Every participant is required to sign our updated liability waiver: https://waiver.smartwaiver.com/w/5ad11e69247c3/web/.