Georgia Rock Climbing
with Granite Arches Climbing Guides

What we offer: Granite Arches Climbing Services offers private rock climbing instruction and guiding on all of the major climbing area in Georgia including Tallulah Gorge, Pigeon Mountain, Mount Yonah, Curahee and others. We also guide throughout the southeastern U.S. (North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia, and South Carolina). Granite Arches' intensive instruction and guiding can help both beginning and more advanced climbers meet their goals with maximum enjoyment, efficiency and safety. Guided instruction is personalized and can cover beginner, intermediate, lead climbing and rescue material. Guided instruction and climbing is tailored to the client's goals, is highly personalized, and is loosely organized around the following knowledge suites:

Intro to Outdoor Rock Climbing: gear overview; basic climbing movement and techniques; belaying and ground anchors; basic risk assessment; and more.

Top Rope Setup: rock and tree analysis; rigging options; media selection and ERNEST analysis; cliff side safety systems; and more.

Lead Climbing I: single-point protection workshop (nuts, sliders, cams, etc.); rope physics/selection; rack selection and organization; reading routes, choosing placements and riggings; avoiding zipper, z clips and backclips; learning to control rope travel and drag; lead climbing psychology. The course makes extensive use of mock leads with transitions into anchors.

Lead Climbing II: advanced leading concepts, theory and practice (exploiting cam angles, wedge physics, building awareness of vector dynamics; utilizing multidirectional anchors as URPs while leading; identifying and managing critical curvature) and involves advanced mock leading problems.

Multi-pitch Climbing: complex anchors, macro-micro route finding, anchor selection and orientation, and more.

Self-Rescue I & II: belay escapes, directs, knot passes, raises, lowers, ascensions, pick-offs, rescue theory/planning, and more.

Guide Skills Course: client care, climbing with multiple clients, advanced belay systems, advanced rappel systems, transitions, and more.

Who we are: Swis Stockton, head guide at Southeast Climbing Guides, holds more guiding certifications than any other guide working in Georgia. No other guide in the southeastern U.S. holds these credentials.

Swis has guided extensively in the U.S., Ecuador, and Peru on rock, snow and ice. Additionally, Swis has taught climbing for Red Top Meadows Center in Jackson Wyoming, guided for North Carolina Outward Bounds School, and developed and implemented the climbing program for the University of Georgia Recreation Department.

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Georgia Rock Climbing with Granite Arches Climbing Guides

Georgia Rock Climbing
with Granite Arches Climbing Guides