Some ideas on how to help get your kids into rock climbing outdoors.
Category Archive: Climbing with kids
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Red Rock Canyon, NV – Climbing Moderates With Kids
Here’s some ideas of areas to climb with kids at Red Rock Canyon, just outside of Las Vegas, NV. On a recent trip to Red Rocks, I thought about the most popular areas with many moderates and how accessible they are to children.
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Fear and Learning to Lead Climb – My Daughter’s Perspective
Experiencing Fear, But Safely… In 2012, my younger daughter expressed the desire to learn to lead climb (trad). She was always a very cautious child, so of course, it surprised and thrilled me. First step was to get her used to following multi-pitch and seeing how to use trad lead climbing gear and how to …
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Family Climbing Tips – Making Climbing Time Family Time
How to Make Climbing With Kids Successful and Safe Just because you’re a parent doesn’t mean you can’t still get out and climb! This Guide to Family Climbing is meant to help climbers with children get out and climb and find other friendly families to climb with and make life much easier.
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Mother climbing with toddler in a backpack sparks controversy
Climbing Mom, Menna Pritchard, Climbs With Toddler On Her Back – Big News? This story is all over the news, apparently starting in the UK, now in the US and worldwide. A British climbing mom, Menna Pritchard, posted a picture in her blog of her climbing with her 2 year old toddler in a baby …
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The cliff is not your driveway
The cliff is not your driveway. I was walking down the carriage road at the Gunks recently and came across some chalk graffiti on the cliff at the base of some popular climbs. It covered perhaps a 10 foot wide swath of rock. There were flowers, stick figures, and “I was here” type scribble – …
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