Primarily 30 days in length, these courses focus on technical traditional climbing skills in addition to camping and travel skills. You'll learn knots and rope handling, belaying, rappelling, protection placement and hazard evaluation while working on improving your movement over rock and potentially lead climbing.

Rocky Mountains

• Wilderness Medicine and Rescue Semester
• Semester in the Rockies (some sections)
• Semester for Outdoor Educators
• Rock and River
• Rock Climbing
• Rocky Mountain Outdoor Educator - Backpacking
• Wind River Mountaineering

Pacific Northwest

• Semester in the Pacific Northwest
• Pacific Northwest Outdoor Educator - Mountaineering

Southwest

• Semester on the Borders
• Semester in the Southwest
• Southwest Outdoor Educator - Backpacking and Rock Climbing

Students learn how to make tape gloves before climbing at the City of Rocks.
Photo: Rainbow Weinstock