Hundred Years of Wind and Snow: The Seattle Climbers Club

Introduce an American mountaineering club's training course and operation mode for your reference.

The Seattle Climbers Club is a non-profit organization that promotes outdoor sports. In addition to mountaineering, more than a dozen branches, including seesaw, hiking, skiing, sailing, outdoor photography, and environmental protection, all management and operations are entirely undertaken by volunteers. The club was officially established in 1907. With a history of 98 years, it now has more than 12,000 registered members and has its own publishing house. It is one of the most famous outdoor clubs in the United States. Here I introduce the core part of the club: climbing.

The climbing activities organized by the club are divided into two levels in terms of difficulty. There are two levels of courses corresponding to this: elementary and advanced level. Students in the primary class are only eligible to participate in mountaineering activities that are difficult for the first grade. Only graduated from the primary class can enter the training class. After graduating from the training classes, they are eligible to apply for team leader qualifications. A qualified leader can independently convene a team to organize mountaineering activities that she or she is interested in. If it is a primary difficulty mountaineering activity, the assistant leader is usually arranged in a ratio of 1:1 to 3:1. Usually, the assistant leader is served by the students of the training course. Therefore, to participate in different levels of club organization activities, the adoption of these two courses is the key.

The classes in the primary class consist of three major components: climbing skills, outdoor rescue and field orientation. Mountaineering skills classes usually start from January each year until October of that year. The course includes 5 lectures and 6 field internships. Only students who have passed all field practice assessments can participate in elementary difficulty mountaineering activities. The precondition for applying for graduation is to top at least three times in the mountain climbing activities organized by the club before October. Outdoor ambulance includes five lectures and simulation exercises and assessments. The field orientation includes a lecture and an all-day field practice, practicing the use of compasses and maps. In addition, the club requires each student to volunteer at the Mountain Road Society in Washington State once.

Field internships are an integral part of the curriculum. It is usually done on weekends. The first internship mainly learns to tie knots, do protection and set up a safe protection station. The second and third internships mainly focus on rock climbing, abseiling, and simulations of various technical operations when climbing a rock in a mountaineering environment. The fourth internship focuses on operations on the glacier, braking with ice axes, walking in glaciers, camping in the snow, and so on. The focus of the fifth and sixth internships was to use the pulley system to implement ice crack rescue. The six field trips will be automatically eliminated as long as one internship fails. The intensity of each internship is very large, and the last two internships each occupy the entire weekend, from Saturday morning at 7:00 to Sunday at 5 pm. Due to the close arrangement of the course, whether it is heavy rain or snow storms, the field practice schedule has never been changed.

All courses and internship instructors are volunteers. Although the participants who attend this course must pay a certain fee, the instructors do not take the text. Seattle’s early spring is often rainy, cold and wet. When other people were enjoying the warm blankets on the weekend morning, all the student instructors went out on the moon at 4 or 5 in the morning, sometimes returning to the house on a muddy sweaty night on Sunday evenings.

When the fieldwork was all over, the summer of Seattle arrived. The climax of the course began. From the end of June to the beginning of September, every weekend there are more than a dozen climbing teams heading for Seattle's "backyard": every corner of the Cascadia Mountains. Due to a variety of reasons, not every event will be summited. On average, it takes more than five events to get three summits. Mountaineering clubs focus on developing comprehensive techniques for mountaineering. Therefore, in the three summits, it is necessary to include a snow mountain and a rock climbing mountain. Climbing difficulty in primary climbing will not exceed 5.6. It is interesting to note that many climbing routes were made by the early members of the mountain climbing clubs before climbing shoes were invented before climbing shoes were invented. Therefore, in order to respect tradition, the club requires trainees to wear high-altitude climbing boots instead of climbing shoes. The requirement of having to top three times has long been controversial. Opponents believe that the spirit of mountaineering is to experience the process. The summit is only a form and an artificial standard. The pros think that due to the large number of mountaineering classes, it is only fair to measure with the objective criteria of the summit.

Every year, there are between one and two hundred people who sign up for entry-level classes in Seattle. Generally about half of them end up graduating. In addition to injuries and personal and family factors, the main reason is the arduousness of the curriculum. From January to September, at least once every weekend to participate in an event, and sometimes there are no weekends to rest. In addition to reviewing, preparing for assessment, etc., we must persist at the expense of many other things including our own recreation and family time. Therefore, people who do not have great love for mountaineering often give up midway.

After graduating from the primary class, approximately one-third of the students will enter the training class every year. The progress of the courses for the fellowship classes is up to the students themselves and can be completed within a maximum of five years. In addition to lectures, five fieldwork internships, and five summit peaks, the training courses must also be taught in primary classes. Students in each training class must teach at least once every primary class field practice. Because the personnel are always lacking, in fact, many students are obliged to undertake teaching work for primary classes several times. In addition, the participants of each course must take the lead in mountain climbing activities in at least 6 primary classes, which must include two snow-capped mountains and two rock-climbing mountains.

The part of the climbing course of the training class mainly focuses on the multi-stage climbing in the traditional climbing, how to put protection, how to build a multi-directional protection station, and how to lead with alternates. The course of climbing grades for advanced studies is generally more than three, and the difficulty can reach 5.8–5.9. Another major part is climbing ice, mainly AlpineIce encountered during the mountaineering. The advanced level of the mountain is much greater than the primary one, both in terms of difficulty and intensity, or it is much more exciting.

After graduating from the training class, there are two more classes that can participate, but the structure is much looser. One is mechanical rock climbing and big wall (AidClimbandBigWall); the other is IceIceClimb.

This is the general mode of operation of the climbing section of the climbers' club. After decades of beatings, this model has been very well-established today. The success of this model is inseparable from Seattle's unique economic and geographical advantages. A large city with a population of more than five million has hundreds of newly-added members each year to provide fresh blood to the club. This area has long had a strong atmosphere of outdoor culture, because the backyard is the Cascadia mountain range of several hundred kilometers, with thousands of technical climbing, rock climbing and ice climbing routes. The Seattle-centered Northwest Territories is one of the most concentrated areas for outdoor enthusiasts in the United States. There is an exaggerated way to say that the store where the newly married couple registered their gifts in Seattle is not Macy's but REI. On the other hand, the prevailing atmosphere of volunteering in the U.S. society makes it possible for activities and teaching to be repeated from generation to generation.

Author: fuel to fly special outdoor information network owner article was originally published Outdoor Information Network

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