\n\t\t\t\tRock Rescue Training at Fun Rock (Photo: George Dunn)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>
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Every fall IMG guides get together for a two-day training session in which they focus on rock guiding skills.\u00c2\u00a0 This year the training\u00c2\u00a0was held in Mazama Washington, which is located on the east side of the North Cascades Highway.\u00c2\u00a0 Although the town itself is quite small, the rock walls that surround it are far from little.\u00c2\u00a0 Mazama boasts some of the longest multi-pitch sport routes in Washington State.\u00c2\u00a0 There are many different climbing areas in Mazama, but most notable is the Goat Wall.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a 1,500 foot wall, which overlooks the foothills of the North Cascades and towers over the town. \u00c2\u00a0For shorter routes, there is great climbing on the aptly named\u00c2\u00a0Fun Wall as well as at\u00c2\u00a0The Matrix. \u00c2\u00a0These two areas\u00c2\u00a0provide great\u00c2\u00a0single-pitch climbing just seconds from the parking lot.<\/p>\n
This year at\u00c2\u00a0guide training, the guides worked on rock rescue skills for the first day.\u00c2\u00a0 On day two, they split into teams of 3 and climbed a couple of the moderate multi-pitch routes on the Goat Wall.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the routes is called Prime Rib of Goat.\u00c2\u00a0 It is 11 pitches in length, and is mostly 5.6 climbing with a few 5.9 moves.\u00c2\u00a0 The other route that was used for training is called Inspiration.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a 6 pitch route that is mostly 5.8 with some 5.9+ moves.\u00c2\u00a0 Both routes are considered \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Classics.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
IMG gained a permit from the Forest Service just this year and we are planning to use Goat Wall as a fallback rock climbing location when the weather is rainy in the North Cascades. \u00c2\u00a0IMG\u00c2\u00a0will also run trips for people wanting to get out and expand their ability on rock. \u00c2\u00a0It is an absolutely amazing venue, that\u00c2\u00a0has something for everyone. \u00c2\u00a0Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n
Josh McDowell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
October 6, 2016 Every fall IMG guides get together for a two-day training session in which they focus on rock guiding skills.\u00c2\u00a0 This year the training\u00c2\u00a0was held in Mazama Washington, which is located on the east side of the North Cascades Highway.\u00c2\u00a0 Although the town itself is quite small, the rock walls that surround […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-cascades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16067,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16063\/revisions\/16067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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