Classes
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Snoqualmie Mt Overnight Trip
This is the first overnight trip on the snow for me. It was great to learn all the tricks and tips around: Other fun activities & learnings: Highlights for me were around working as a team and forget about yourself and your ego and be there for the team! It’s a great feeling that invalidates you as a person in a way, but it individualizes the team bringing it to a different level! I love that feeling! Also, I realized that I totally suck at navigation with a compass. I need to learn how to use it without relying on my phone map. Another learning is around being more scared…
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Vantage – Rock Climb Trip
This was my first rock climbing experience with the Mountaineers. I absolutely loved it because I faced my fears of heights! What I loved the most is that: Learnings and Highlights: I guess the biggest learning was coming from a girl in the group, Mary. She is amazing! She was not afraid of trying anything new and fight for reaching to the top! This is so great to see and it helps you in life as well! She was relentlessly trying to reach to the top without being bother by the defeat of falling or not succeeding from the first try! This is amazing! She inspired me to do the…
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Climbing Class 1
January has been quite a ride. I started the Mountaineerings Basic course and first 2 classes and field trips were around rock climbing. At first I was really worried that we were starting exactly with the part that I was less confident with. However, thanks to my SIG (Small Instructional Group), I overcame the fear of heights. My SIG organized few training sessions that helped me a lot to get the basics in climbing: belaying, climbing, rappelling, knots, belaying tie-off etc. What do you need for this classes: What you will learn: Here are some pictures from my SIG training, where we had fun with rappeling off a building. It…
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Meet & Greet BACC
I wanted to write a few words about the beginning of my journey. Yesterday it was the Meet & Greet for The Basic Alpine Climbing Course. We were 120 students split in groups of 10, with one instructor each. We were a good mix of women and men. However, I wish we were also a good mix of levels of experience. I was a bit intimidated that I was the only one without any rock climbing skills. It seamed that they’ve all done tons of rock climbing and they wanted to go to the next level. In addition, some have also climbed Rainier or other serious mountains. Hence, I had…
