Climbing and Bouldering
Lessons and skill-building courses
Start with beginner lessons and progress as your skills develop. Our experienced instructors teach adults and children year-round.
Our 13m indoor climbing wall features moulded concrete panels embedded with quartzite holds, texture, cracks, and chimneys. It was designed to learn/practice leading on gear, anchor building, rappelling, rock rescue and crevasse rescue.
The bouldering wall in the basement of the Kinesiology A block was revamped in 2019 and 2023 with recommendations and feedback from the local climbing community.
Rock Climbing
Explore the vertical world this summer with our rock programs. Whether you have indoor climbing experience of not, you can take a one-day intro and learn new skills from our experienced and certified instructors. For those with experience, advanced options include lead and alpine climbing programs.
Spend a day with us and spark a lifelong passion! Learn skills and stay safe under the guidance of our ACMG-certified instructors at a local crag.
Ready to take your lead skills onto the rock? This 1-day course will cover guidebook interpretation, route selection and grades, protection, ropework, belays, and rappelling, as well as movement and technique to climb local crags with confidence.
Prerequisite: Intro to Lead Climbing (Indoor) or equivalent lead experience
This 2-day course introduces trad skills including equipment, gear placement, anchors, and leading strategies. Practice with top-rope and supervised leads will help you develop the skills to safely lead single-pitch trad climbs.
Prerequisite: Lead Climbing Intro (Outdoor) or equivalent lead rock climbing experience
Indoor Wall Climbing
Learn to climb on our 13m concrete wall - perfect for building skills that transfer to the outdoors. Start with our Indoor Intro and then continue to learn lead climbing skills and more.
Get hooked on this fun and challenging sport in our 2.5-hour introductory course, where you’ll learn all the basic skills needed to pass a top-rope belay test at any facility in the city while building confidence for climbing safely.
In this 2.5-hour course, our expert instructors will guide you through your first lead experience. Learn the skills to pass a lead belay test at any facility in the city and safely lead indoors.
Prerequisite: Confidently climb 5.10- indoors and passed top-rope belay test
Develop and refine your trad climbing skills in this dedicated session for independent practice in a controlled indoor top-rope environment with other experienced climbers.
Prerequisite: passed UCalgary top-rope belay test
Take your first vertical steps with confidence. For both new and developing climbers - build a strong foundation in movement and technique over four sessions to help you climb efficiently, conserve energy, and have fun on the wall.
View offerings and register for Climbing Technique Progression
Youth Climbing
Let your kids climb our walls!
Our experienced climbing instructors offer progressive skill-building series to children aged 4-17 on our climbing and bouldering walls. No experience required.
Multi-week series are offered Thursday evenings or Saturday mornings.
This play-based program introduces the vertical world, focusing on building confidence and physical literacy through bouldering activities and games in a safe and fun environment as well as some instructor-belayed climbing.
This beginner climbing series is designed to ignite excitement for being active and discovering new heights. The program introduces bouldering and top-rope climbing skills in a supportive, play-based environment for children aged 7-11.
This exciting, progressive series for youth aged 12-17 will teach fundamental climbing skills and belaying techniques with lots of practice. Develop body awareness, coordination, and strength while having a blast in these weekly session.
Ready to climb on your own? Check out the facility information page for indoor climbing and bouldering walls
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