Sport climbing
your first proper crag
New to sport climbing, or only ever done it indoors? This is the two days that get you safely onto real rock and comfortable there.
The two days, in short
- The gear, and how to trust it
- Tying in, and belaying you can rely on
- Moving efficiently up a route
- Cleaning the anchor and getting down safely — the bit most people never get taught properly
- Enough top-rope mileage that it stops feeling strange
Top-roping is where we’ll spend most of the time; if you’re moving well and the head’s in the right place, we might just have you leading by the end. No promises, but it happens more than you’d think.
Who this is for
Anyone who’s never sport climbed outside. A bit of gym time helps, but it’s genuinely not required — curiosity is the only real prerequisite.
What you leave with
The skills and the judgement to be a safe, self-sufficient partner at a sport crag. One honest caveat, because we’d rather say it here than have you find out later: true independence outside means leading, and leading is its own next step — but everything you learn here is the ground it’s built on.
Inclusions & exclusions
Included
Guiding, accident & rescue insurance, and all the technical gear — ropes, the rack, protection, hardware, the lot. The only personal kit is a helmet, harness, shoes and a chalk bag; bring your own if you’ve got them, and if you haven’t, they rent from us for a small supplement rather than sending you shopping. Tell us your sizes when you book.
Not included
Getting there and back, food and drink for the day, and anywhere you stay the night before or after.
Good questions
Somewhere in Catalonia with the right rock for this course and the right conditions for the time of year — there’s no fixed venue, and that’s deliberate: it means we go where the course works best rather than where the diary says. If you’ve got somewhere in mind, tell us. If it suits what we’re working on, that’s where we’ll go.
Courses are hard to rain off. A skills venue swaps freely, and if the first day’s forecast is grim we can often move indoors to a climbing gym and still get the fundamentals done. It’s only when both days look genuinely bad that we’ll reschedule — and we’ll see that coming together, days ahead, rather than springing it on you.
Most people come solo or in a pair, which is where the learning is richest. Up to four of you can share a course and a guide; if there are more of you — up to eight — we’ll bring a second guide. Just say how many when you get in touch. The price drops as the group grows: €400 for one, €220 each for two, €190 each for three or four.
Free to move or cancel up to 7 days before. Inside that last week the deposit stays — not to be awkward, but because that’s when a course gets properly built: venue, conditions, kit, a plan shaped around you. Weather that rules out both days is the exception — then we reschedule, no drama.
No — and that’s deliberate. A course here is about what you can do, not a piece of paper that says you did it. What you leave with is capability you’ll feel on the very next climb, which is worth a good deal more than a certificate on the wall.
Other courses
Try climbing
A relaxed one-day introduction to real rock. No experience and no kit assumed, no commitment beyond a day.
Multi-pitch
The course the multi-pitch page keeps pointing at — the one that turns a guided big day into something you can do on your own rope.
Trad
Sport climbing you clip what’s there. Trad you place what protects you — and that changes everything about how you read a route.
