$500 per person - 3 Day Technical/Basic Course. $600 per person - 3 Day Advanced Course. Rates include your instructors, gear, lunch each day, barbeque one evening and ACA curriculum fees. Tax and Gratuities not included.
Excursions of Escalante is proud to collaborate with the American Canyoneering Association (ACA) in offering basic and advanced canyoneering workshops.
Our "Technical Course" will be taught with Rich Carlson, founder of the American Canyoneering Association (ACA) and canyoneering pioneer. Guests will receive instruction in efficient wilderness travel, rappelling, basic rope work, as well as canyon down climbing techniques. The "Basic" classroom will take place in the canyons and on the rope. These are active classes and will require the application of new skills in the canyon environment. This will make the learning easy and lasting as well as get us out on the slick rock....which is a good thing.
Rich Carlson will also take the lead instructing our "Advanced Courses". Guests can anticipate long days in the canyons with practical training in "keeper pothole" escapes, safe natural anchors, extended rappels (up to 300 ft.) and other advanced canyon "problems". Canyon leadership roles, spotting and risk assessment are just a few of the many other valuable topics covered in the course. If you have completed the ACA Technical Course and are proficient with those skills, then you are ready take the Advanced Course.
"Much thanks to Rich and Rick for a great course this weekend. I had a great time with my friends and am glad to have made more. I am even more stoked now to get back to Southern Utah to explore some more canyons. Thank You Again." Gonzo (US Soldier, Iraq)
125 East Main Street P.O. Box 605 Escalante, UT, 84726
