I will provide vegan lentil soup and (possibly
non-vegan) bread. Food or drink additions are
always appreciated but not necessary! Just bring
yourself....
Description:
Hey Ladies, have you been out in the mountains,
looking at a sweet line up a steep rocky face and
thinking how you’d like to get to the top of
that? Or maybe you’ve followed some awesome
routes and might like to be at the front end of
the rope? Or maybe you have been cragging and
sport climbing for a bit but you feel intimidated
by multipitch routes? Maybe you love climbing on
bolts but you can’t understand how people can
trust their own protection? Maybe you just
started climbing and you don’t even know what you
want to do, but it all seems great? Maybe you’ve
been climbing for a while and want to share some
of your skills and find some new partners? Maybe
you just wouldn’t mind climbing more with other
women?
The Women's Climbing Mentor Group aims to build a
community of women climbers and particularly
support ambition and growth. I’d like to
facilitate women becoming trad lead climbers,
with the full range of skills and competence to
pick personally challenging objectives and lead
others up the rock. If you have some latent
interest or ambition, or some latent mentoring
desire, at any level, this group is for you.
Why gender specific? Well, despite the huge leaps
society has made toward gender equity and a more
complex understanding and treatment of gender, my
experience is that many women still find
themselves held back by insecurity and self-doubt
when facing a leadership position, or simply by
the desire to accommodate other’s needs and
ambitions before their own. This group
specifically aims to provide a supportive and
understanding learning environment and help stoke
that fire under your ambition. The aim of this
group is to provide mentorship and a peer group
for developing skills. This will involve
combining courses and skills sessions already
being offered by ACC, along with practice and
skills sessions arranged for our group.
Here are some aspects of skill sets that I would
like to support in this group:
- Lead Climbing and Lead Belaying
- Anchor building
- Anchor Cleaning
- Rappelling
- Belaying from Above
- Basic Rescue Skills
- Multipitch Climbing
- Traditional Gear Placement
- Choosing an Objective,
- Planning, and Building a Partner Circle
- Route Finding & On-Route Decision-making
- Multi-Day trip and Expedition planning
I’m spearheading this group, but sometimes that
just means bringing together a group with more
experienced and less experienced climbers (like
our winter ice-climbing sessions) I myself am
primarily a rock climber with more alpine
ambitions. As a group we will also have the
opportunity to qualify for some subsidized
leadership training through the club as we
complete some of our development goals.
This meeting will be social – a chance to get to
know new folks, catch up with one another, lay
out some goals, and strategize on how to meet
them. These social get-togethers are repeated
seasonally.
Feel free to email me with questions:
annedrewpotter@ gmail.com. And please
share with
your friends who might be interested.
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