Our Core Skills Course is taught by ACA (American Canyoneering Association) Certified Instructors. Students will receive instruction in efficient wilderness travel, rappelling, basic rope work, as well as canyon down climbing techniques. The "Core" classroom will take place in the canyons and on the rope. These are active classes and will require the application of new skills in the canyon environment. This will make the learning easy and lasting as well as get us out on the slick rock....which is a good thing.
Our Sovereign Canyoneering Course is taught by ACA (American Canyoneering Association) Certified Instructors. Students can anticipate long days in the canyons with practical training in safe natural anchors, rappels and other "sovereign" canyoneering canyon "problems". Canyon leadership roles, spotting and risk assessment are just a few of the many other valuable topics covered in the course. If you have completed the Core Skills Course and are proficient with those skills, then you are ready take the Sovereign Course.
Many folks prefer the one-on-one instruction and personal tailoring of our Private Courses to the larger classrooms of our public Core and Sovereign Courses. With Private Courses, we are able to tailor the course to students’ specific needs and interests. Have a large group? We are happy to accommodate larger Private Course crews too!
Skill Specific Courses
We also offer Courses with focus on specific key skills. These courses are for experienced canyoneers looking to expand their knowledge base. Pothole Escapes and Advanced Anchors are skill sets which could have entire books written on them and for experienced canyoneers, there can never be enough tricks and tools for the trade.
