E-mail this pageRock Climbing and Ice Climbing
The Expeditionary Studies rock and ice climbing curricula will take you from your first climbing experience to lead climbing. Comprised of a series of six courses, the rock and ice curricula each share the same goal: creating safe, capable, and thinking climbers.
Getting Started
If you only want to see what technical climbing is all about, you can take one or two intro level courses and get a meaningful start in the world of climbing.
You'll start on a top-rope, where you'll have the security to take your first steps in the vertical realm of climbing. Whether on the rock faces of Pokomoonshine or the icicles at Pitchoff Mountain, the first classes will expose you to the foundations of technical climbing while taking you to the classic crags of The Adirondacks.
The Next Steps
When you're ready, and if you're interested, advanced classes offer you the opportunity to grow as a climber, by introducing you to new techniques, new topics of study and to travel beyond the local Adirondack crags. From the New River Gorge to Lake Willoughby, you'll find new challenges of terrain, but also of planning and executing longer trips.
Along the way, you'll be reading about history and land management, weather and leadership, risk management and geology, with assignments ranging over these and other topics throughout the semester. Your instructors may hold lectures at the base of the crags or they may meet with you in a classroom. Either way, you'll be integrating climbing experience and college assignments all the time.
Your Faculty Are Your Guides
The Expeditionary Studies faculty are widely experienced guides and teachers. They're here to take you places you haven't been, both physically and intellectually.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about Expeditionary Studies classes, please feel free to contact us:
Larry Soroka, Director and Chair
Phone: (518) 564-5292
E-mail: laurence.soroka@plattsburgh.edu