Vertical Pursuits

🔥 Weekend Climbing Courses Coming Up: June 6th + June 7th 🔥

Join us for a powerful two-day progression designed to turn motivated climbers into more independent, self-reliant partners in the mountains.

🧗‍♂️ June 6th – Intro to Trad Climbing
Learn the fundamentals of traditional protection, gear placement, and how to build trust in your systems when bolts aren’t there. This is where real gear-based climbing starts to click.

🏔️ June 7th – Intro to Multi-Pitch Climbing
Take those skills upward—literally. Learn anchors, rope management, transitions, and the systems that let you climb longer routes with confidence and efficiency.

💡 Taken together, these courses create a fast-track progression: From placing your first piece of gear → to moving efficiently on multi-pitch terrain → to building the foundation of becoming an independent trad climber.

If you’ve been waiting for the moment to level up, this weekend is it.

📍 Limited spots available
📅 June 6–7
📩 DM to sign up or get details

Here's some recent raw footage of me coaching on the Trad Beyond the Basics course.

Many climbers get stuck in their progression, especially in trad climbing and are looking to break out of that box.

Understanding how to project harder trad routes, understanding subtitles moving on harder cracks (specifically on granite), and learning how to work the gear and moves efficiently with a project mindset is where many climbers get stuck.

This is how you go from leading cozy 5.9s to projecting 5.10+ and 5.11 cracks. By sucking at the pitch until you don't suck anymore. These moves felt strange and impossible at first and then went to unlocked and repeatable.

That process is the same process we all do whether the grade is 5.10 or 5.15. I think moderate trad climbers sometimes don't realize that you can apply the same tactics a cutting edge rock climber uses to get better at your own grade and thus get better at the sport.

From gym walls to real rock 🧗

Colin and his dad had done an intro to sport climbing course with us prior to this day. They were both looking to solidify their outdoor skills and did a follow up day of coaching to really dial in and work on their skills.

Through their first steps into outdoor lead climbing where movement meets mindset, and every clip builds confidence. Indoor climbing teaches the skills, but mentorship brings it all together outside.

This was an awesome route to push Colin's movement with some committing reaches and awesome exposure.

Bridging the gap between outdoors and indoors., one route at a time.

Ready to stop surviving your trad leads and start actually pushing your limits? 👀

Join us for Trad: Beyond the Basics at Sugarloaf on April 11th — a full day designed to break through whatever’s holding you back.

If you’ve ever felt:
⛔ unsure about your gear
⛔ afraid to fall
⛔ stuck climbing way below your sport grade

…this is your next step.

You’ll get:
🧗‍♂️ Personalized coaching in a small group (max 4:1)
🧗‍♂️ Advanced gear placement + protection strategy
🧗‍♂️ Mock leading + real leads with feedback
🧗‍♂️ Controlled fall practice to build real confidence
🧗‍♂️ Crack climbing technique that actually translates outdoors

All set on the splitter granite of Sugarloaf — one of Tahoe’s best training grounds for trad climbing.

This isn’t a “follow along” course — it’s targeted, hands-on instruction built around your weaknesses so you leave climbing stronger, smarter, and way more confident. ()

📍 Sugarloaf, CA
📅 April 11
⏱ Full-day (8 hours)
🎯 For climbers with prior trad experience looking to level up

Spots are limited — grab yours and start leading like you mean it.

👉 Learn more + sign up: https://www.verticalpursuitsclimbing.com/trad-beyond-the-basics/

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