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Professionally Guided Rock Climbing in San Diego and Joshua Tree

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Zion National Park! World class climbing on sandstone with big wall style climbs. This is here is André just about to get ready for the short and incredibly amazing traverse pitch on "Moonlight Buttress" (5.12d) – this is Zion's most famous long route following a continuous wide finger crack pitch after pitch. Most parties skip this traverse pitch and aid climb via a bolt ladder straight up from the belay stance. 12 pitches of hard and sustained climbing including views and exposure that is unbelievable!

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Cathouse rock in Joshua Tree National Park. Testing our mental strength on airy granite and 10mm ropes. This time we had a group of Germans out to explore what Germany does no have… Miles and miles and miles of beautiful desert. One Herman might think it is always hot in the desert… We had to find out quite the opposite. Nigh time temperature dropped down close to freezing and made for a mind opening experience.

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On belay!Do not underestimate the importance of a solid, confident belay! A good belayer always has an eye on the climber and is ready to adjust tension or slack at any time while maintaining at least one hand (usually the stronger one) on the brake rope. In climbing there is a big difference between lead belaying and top rope belaying! Lead belaying is a more advanced technique because adjustments may be more abrupt and consequences of a fall may be more severe! Force and distance of a falling lead climber is much higher than force and distance of a slipping top rope climber.