Summer Camps

Summer Camps

First Avenue Rocks Climbing camps will familiarize kids with the tenants of rock climbing including technique, body movement, equipment use & care, termonology, and goal setting. We cap our classes at ten climbers in order to better focus on the kids as individuals. Even if your child has never climbed before we can have them climbing in minutes and teach them skills that they can use in all aspects of life.

Summer Session 1

First Ave Summer Sessions are 8 weeks long, on Tuesdays from 4:30pm-6:30pm.

This session meets every Tuesday for 8 weeks. This class is capped at 10 climbers

Session 1 Dates: June 5, 12, 19, 26
July 3, 10, 17, 24

Rock Climbing Is Fitness… and More!

All sports promote health and wellness, physical strength, hand-eye coordination, and confidence. But rock climbing goes further by adding foot-eye coordination, balance, simple and complex problem solving, and built in short-term and long-term goals that are exciting, challenging and attainable. Because climbing works without lists of artificial rules that have to be remembered kids take to it naturally. This makes climbing fun while at the same time teaching valuable life skills.

Bouldering Basics

Since the art of climbing is the same whether it is on a five-foot boulder in Hoover or a three thousand foot tower in Patagonia, at First Avenue Rocks we are able to teach all aspects of climbing in a controlled environment. First Avenue Rocks is a climbing gym that focuses on the discipline of bouldering which is rock climbing on shorter climbs with out the use of ropes and harnesses. This format allows for a more social teaching environment and allows us to focus on the important aspects of the sport. With bouldering you can be climbing in minutes verses hours with rope climbing.

First Avenue Rocks sees the potential in all our young climbers and we believe they are the future of our sport. With this in mind we have created a series of age appropriate after school programs to maximize the climbing experience.