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PCIA Instructor Certification
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INSTRUCTOR TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION COURSES
This year we are pleased to offer our certification courses through
the Professional Climbing Instructors’ Association. The PCIA
is a nationally-recognized training organization dedicated to improving the
safety, quality and delivery of technical climbing instruction. PCIA certification
courses are ideally suited for top rope instructors who work at camps or schools
in our region or in climbing instructional settings around the world. For more
information on PCIA courses, check the link to the right.
Course Instructor
Our PCIA certification courses are taught by Jon Tierney of
Acadia Mountain Guides. Jon is an IFMGA certified guide with
decades of guiding and teaching experience.
PCIA Base Managed Climbing Instructor Course
The thirty hour (3 day) course builds upon the existing skills
of competent recreational climbers taking an in depth look at
site selection, equipment, knot selection, anchor building,
rope systems, Leave No Trace practices, rescue and assistance
skills as well as key instructional skills. Participants are
considered PCIA Assistant Instructors upon completion of the
course.
Meet: 9 am at the Tettegouche State Park
Sunday-Tuesday, May 18-20, 2008
Cost: $350
Register By: Noon, April 13
Those seeking certification must pass this one-day field exam
and written test. A skill consolidation period following the
Instructor Course is recommended but not required.
Certification Exam: Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Cost: $150
Info Sheet
PCIA Top Managed Climbing Instructor Course and Exam
This one-day, 10-hour addition to the Base Managed Climbing
Instructor Course is designed for those who work in settings,
like sea cliffs, at which the belayers are at the top of the cliff.
Skills include managing top belays, rescue and raising systems,
belay escapes and cliff top safety.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Register By: Noon, April 13
Meet: TBA
Cost: $150
PCIA Single Pitch Instructor Module
This course is for instructors who must lead climbs in order to
set up group instruction sites. Topics include lead climbing
skills, raising and lowering, efficient climbing to rappel
transitions and belaying the second. Candidates must be
certified as a PCIA Base Managed Instructor or an AMGA Top
Rope Site Manager.
Thursday & Friday, May 22 & 23, 2008
Register By: Noon, April 13
Meet: TBA
Cost: $250 ($150 if taken in conjunction with the Top
Managed Instructor Course.)
Climbing Instructor Courses
Top Rope Instructor Training Course
This three-day course is taught by American Mountain Guide
Association certified instructors and is designed to help prepare a
recreational climber for his or her role as a professional outdoor
top rope instructor. Topics include placing and evaluating rock
protection, building top rope anchors, rescue practice with
raising and lowering injured climbers, risk management, group
management, teaching techniques and safety.
Call to arrange your own date and time.
$345 per person. Group size 2-person minimum.
Info Sheet
Top Rope Instructor Skills Update
You’ve worked with groups in an outdoor setting as a top rope
instructor in the past. This two-day course will help you refresh
your skills, practice rescues and update your knowledge of equip-
ment use and risk management. Course instructors are AMGA
certified.
Call to arrange your own date and time.
$220 per person. Group size 2-person minimum.
Info Sheet
Climbing Rescue Course
Join an AMGA certified instructor to practice the skills needed to
raise or lower an injured climber to safety. This one-day course
will emphasize technical rigging of anchors and rope work.
Previous experience in outdoor climbing and building anchors is
required.
Meets from 9am-5pm.
Call to arrange your own date and time.
$110 per person. Group size 2-person minimum.
Info Sheet
