The Climbing Outside course is designed for those people who have some experience of climbing on indoor walls and would like to gain the extra knowledge needed to start climbing outside safely.
The most common aims of the Climbing Outside course are to reinforce the climbing skills learned indoors and expand those skills to address the extra safety and technical issues that are encountered when moving outside. These skills can be taught in a variety of environments depending on ability and aspirations - single pitch, multi pitch, routes with bolt protection or routes with traditional protection.
We normally use a small town called Villaueva del Rosario in Andalucia as our base because it has great access to many different crags that have a full spectrum of climbing styles and grades on offer. The extensive range of crags offer routes with either fixed or traditional protection and the position of the village means that we escape up into the hills if it is hot or head down to the coast if the weather is dodgy.
The advantages of having climbing tuition in Spain is that the weather is generally warmer and drier than that encountered in the UK and this makes the learning experience both easier and more enjoyable.
Silvia is a native Spanish speaker and has good relations with the local climbers and thus knows about a lot of crags that are not available to UK climbers.