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Ouray Ice Climbing

Hone your ice climbing techniques in the Ouray Ice Park and climb a guided backcountry multipitch route in the surrounding world class backcountry of Ouray, Telluride, and Silverton. Skyward Mountaineering specializes in offering instruction and custom guided ice climbs throughout Ouray, Colorado from early season high elevation routes, to mid-winter classics, to early spring alpine prep routes.

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Black canyon Rock climbing

Explore the adventurous multipitch rock climbing in the Black Canyon National Park. Skyward Mountaineering offers guided climbing on multiple classic routes on the North and South Rim, from moderate routes 6 pitches long to challenging Grade V face and crack climbs. All guided trips are customized, low-ratio trips to meet your goals and abilities.

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Moab desert towers

Put your crack climbing skills to the test on the classic desert towers surrounding Moab, Utah. In addition to expert guiding on a world class rock climbing route, Skyward Mountaineering guides continue to provide instruction on improving your multipitch efficiency and crack climbing techniques to help you maximize the fun and learning opportunities. With our intimate knowledge of the Moab area desert towers and crags we can seek out the best routes for your specific ability and interests.

Featured Clinics

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Learn To Crack Climb

This 2-day rock climbing course focuses on the fundamentals of crack climbing in the desert southwest. Learn the nuances of jamming finger cracks, efficient methods for off-width technique and enjoy some Type I fun on splitter hand cracks. Conveniently based out of Grand Junction, Colorado!

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Learn to Ice Climb

This 2-day introductory ice climbing course is based in Ouray, Colorado and follows a customized itinerary curated by Skyward Mountaineering’s founder Vince Anderson to take never-ever ice climbers to confident and self-sufficient top rope ice climbers. You will learn foundational movement techniques to develop maximum efficiency, simple and repeatable anchor systems and the nuances of ice climbing.

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Learn to Mixed Climb

This 2-day mixed climbing course is designed for intermediate ice climbers looking to develop the precision and energy efficiency to climb steep and delicate mixed and drytooling routes in a winter environment. Climbers will learn to “read” the ice and the rock, conserve energy in steeper terrain and transition between rock and ice.

Custom Guiding: select a discipline

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alpine climbing

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rock climbing

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Ice Climbing

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BAckcountry Skiing

Experience The True Spirit Of Alpinism