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Looking for a lady to teach me trad
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I’m having a hard time finding a woman to teach me. I can only imagine how many times this has been brought up. I’m in the Bay Area and would love suggestions on groups or directions to the rock they live under. I need a woman that loves a good crack. |
Allyson Dixonwrote: You need to talk to my GF. I'll shoot her a message. |
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Now that’s what I’m talking about! |
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If only it were that easy. |
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She Moves Mountains comes highly recommended from everyone that I know who has utilized their services. |
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If you're willing to make the trip out to Yosemite, I'd be happy to teach ya a bit! I'm away all summer but will be back in the area by late August. |
Erikka Olsonwrote: I'm always willing to make that drive! Text me when you're free! (408) 470-0976 |
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Look up Miranda Oakley, she runs women’s clinics (and she’s a badass climber). |
Allyson Dixonwrote: There's a women's climbing group on Facebook for Yosemite. If you're not on Facebook, go to a Sunday morning climber coffee it's now in tuolumne meadows, and you'll meet the raddest chicas who want to climb and would love to take you. |
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I totally get the desire to get taught by other women, Bronwyn Hodgkins runs camps up in Squamish and Josie McKee teaches some clinics at the lander festival. hiring a female guide would be an option as well. As far as finding female trad mentors, that can sometimes be difficult (as finding a trad mentor is hard enough, much less a lady mentor), and learning as much as you can through books, online courses, clinics and guiding can help you to a base level of knowledge that will help people with more experience feel more comfortable taking you out. I personally prefer climbing with other women, and like avoiding the MP dudes that hit on you on the way out to the crag... but if you are willing to team up with dudes and chicks, I found Indian creek to be an amazing place to go to solo. You can just get to the supercrack parking lot pretty early, and most people are looking to team up to increase the rack size for the ridiculousness that is the Indian creek splitter cracks and typically there is some rope guns cool with taking less experienced folks out if you can belay safely. if you haven't bought a trad rack and the necessary stuff for trad climbing this can be helpful too for teaming up with folks. books: anchors by John long - recommend reading cover to cover. so good. the Bible for building anchors, at least IMO wide Boyz crack climbing book/wide boys videos on YouTube are pretty good for learning technique. also - notice who is climbing the crack at your local gym, I know the Bay Area has some gyms with cracks in them, talk to those people, many times if your stoked they'll be excited to teach ya. Good luck. I got into trad without having a mentor for a long time, and it was a lot of trial by error, but as I learned, and met some really wonderful folks along the way. One of my main mentors is a dude so don't write them off completely. I feel lucky that now I've found some gals that trad climb and crack climb. Keep putting it out there what your stoked about, eventually the universe will answer. (You probably will have to deal with some not so great partners along the way). Hope this helps :) |
Steph Evanswrote: What’s the name of this group? I am curious to find it but couldn’t locate it by searching. |
Bellsieshellwrote: https://www.facebook.com/groups/846724366205894/?ref=share&mibextid=I6gGtw |
