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North
Carolina Rock Climbing Guides and Instruction
with Granite Arches Climbing Guides
North Carolina
rock climbing is some of the best in the United States, and includes exceptional
quality granite
faces from 200 to 1000 feet in height.
Further, the crags are easily accessible from many major metropolitan areas
such as Atlanta, Charlotte, Knoxville, Asheville, and other large
southeastern cities. Major areas include Looking Glass,
Table Rock, Linville
Gorge, Moore's Wall, Whitesides,
and Shortoff. These
rocks can provide a lifetime of first-class rock climbing adventure.
Improve Faster with a Guide:
Granite Arches has been guiding in North Carolina for over a decade. Our focus is to help you efficiently reach your
climbing goals, while developing superior risk management awareness and
technical skill proficiency. In short, our aim is to make you a better climber as quickly as
possible. Intensive instruction and guiding can help both beginning and more advanced
climbers meet their climbing goals with maximum enjoyment and efficiency. 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:
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Intro to
Outdoor Rock Climbing (belaying, climbing technique,
equipment, etc.)
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Top Rope Setup
(rock and tree analysis, rigging
options, ERNEST analysis, etc.)
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Intermediate/Multi-pitch
Climbing (technique, natural anchors,
multi-pitch, rope management, etc.)
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Advanced/Lead
Climbing (single-point protection systems,
complex anchors, mock leads, etc.)
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Rescue
Skills (knot passes, raises, lowers, ascensions,
etc.)
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Guide Training
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Who we are:
 Swis Stockton
is a USMGA/AMGA Certified Rock Instructor, WEMT, Paramedic, ACLS/PEPP/BTLS, and Wilderness Advanced Life Support
(WALS) certified. He
completed the Swiss UIAGM High Altitude Guides Rescue Course and has guided in Peru, Ecuador, and
US on rock, snow and ice. More.
 Drew
Dekle has been guiding for 15 years and logued hundreds of
guiding days in the southeastern U.S., teaching climbing to numerous
camps, groups and individuals. He is WFR certified through
WMA and was trained and finished EMT training in 1995. He is an
avid snow skier. More.
 Rod
Thomas is an AMGA Certified Rock Instructor and a great addition to Granite Arches. Rod
holds WFR certification through WMA,
and yes, ladies, he DOES like long walks on the beach. Rod guides
rock full time now, no longer working winter as a ski instructor in Idaho. Learn more here.
Click here to book a
climbing trip with us.
Click here
to learn about our guiding and instructional trips in North Carolina and the
surrounding mountains.
For
more information about our North Carolina
Climbing Guides click the appropriate link at left.
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