Next Level your CLimbing & Mountain SKills
All Mountain Skill COurses
Multi Pitch Pro Weekends
Smooth systems make multi pitch climbing manageable and fun! Take your team’s safety seriously by forming smooth skills that will set you up for success.
Touching on a range of safety systems and climbing skills, you will sharpen your skills and expand your experience so that you can complete multi pitch climbs with confidence.
Rock safe or equivalent.
COST: $427 PER PERSON
Spring Into Rock
Launch your rock climbing season with this value packed three in one climbing course.
Travel to Penticton in April and set yourself up for success this spring. We will complete three courses in four days, along with getting in a ton of climbing experience. Check the boxes on Rock Safe, Lead Rock, and Trad Leader before the season even starts in Alberta!
Rock Leader and 10+ days of outdoor lead climbing experience
COST: $863 PER PERSON
Trad Lead Weekends
Make the jump from clipping bolts to placing gear! Take your safety seriously by forming smooth skills that will set you up to achieve success.
TThis two day course uses specific learning progression to increase your confidence and comfort. We are excited to empower you to interact with the technically demanding art of leading on traditional climbing equipment.
Rock Leader and 10+ days of outdoor lead climbing
COST: $485 PER PERSON
Alpine Skills Weekends
Start alpine climbing with a solid foundation! Alpine climbing is fun, but it can be a bit overwhelming at times.
Begin learning to read terrain, manage multiple overlapping risk factors, move in snow and understand glacier travel. Take your team’s safety seriously by forming smooth skills so that you can achieve success
Rock Safe or Equivalent
COST: $497 PER PERSON
Alpine Leadership Week
Join us for an unforgettable week of alpine leadership and skill development.
Refine the skills and tools required to make decisions and climb in the dynamic alpine environment. You should leave this course feeling empowered to confidently begin alpine climbing independently.
Alpine Skills, Rock Safe, or equivalent experience
COST: $1161 PER PERSON
AST 1 Weekend
This course will give you confidence in understanding and managing avalanche risk.
Whether you ski, snowshoe, splitboard, or ice climb, avalanche safety training is for you. Learn how to manage the terrain and snowpack you choose to play in.
No Experience Required.
COST: $302 PER PERSON
Companion Rescue
This one-day companion rescue course is designed for individuals who are looking to review and then build upon the rescue skills taught in AST 1
We will update you on the latest techniques for searching, probing, and shovelling. You will then spend the day learning how to solve multiple burials, close proximity burials, and deep burial scenarios.
AST 1 Prerequisite
COST: $204 PER PERSON
Rock Safe Weekends
Your safety doesn’t happen by accident.
Our highly trained guides will sharpen and expand your safety skills so that you and your climbing team can confidently manage the range of challenging scenarios you might find yourself in.
Lead Rock or Equivalent
COST: $427 PER PERSON
Rock Safe Pro Weekends
Take your multi pitch safety skills to the next level, and sharpen your ability to handle complex incidents while in a challenging environment.
Our highly trained guides will sharpen and expand your safety skills so that you and your climbing team can together manage the range of scenarios you might find yourself in while multi pitch climbing.
Rock safe or equivalent.
COST: $427 PER PERSON
Learn to Lead climb rock or Ice. Learn rock rescue to climb safer. Head up to the Alpine and learn about the dynamic Alberta Rocky Mountains.
The Alberta Rockies are made for adventuring. We want to help you next level your mountain skills, whether you are just learning to lead or are an experienced alpinist and want to brush up on rescue skills, we want to share summer in the mountains with you!
Built upon the belief that adventure can be transformational, let Girth Hitch Guiding take you on a life-affirming journey through the ancient mountains of the Alberta’s Canadian Rockies. Based out of Nordegg, Alberta we thrive on introducing outdoor enthusiasts – from beginners to experts – to our beautiful mountains.
