Joshua Tree Climbing Courses
By Ken
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Climbing covers a range of recreational, adventurous or sporting activities involving using one’s hands and feet to move up the surface of a steep object. Evolving from the pursuit of mountaineering, rock climbing is the scaling of steep rocky surfaces, usually using ropes and other climbing equipment for protection.
Rock climbing can be subdivided into free climbing (where ropes and gear are used strictly for safety in the case of a fall), and aid climbing, where a passage up a piece of rock is engineered by using equipment placed in the rock for upward progress.
No matter what type of climbing that you undertake, taking a climbing class or climbing lessons is must when first starting out. And while many climbing instructors use climbing walls, the instructors at Joshua Tree Guides use real world locations in and around Joshua Tree National Park. And taking rock climbing courses and climbing Joshua Tree National Park are the reasons you got into climbing aren’t they?