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learing the rope at the USA climbing route setting clinic (can you spot Dustin?)

So, Frank, Dave and Jamie have all been on me to make a blog posting, especially since so much has happened since my last update. And since Mark managed to post something just before he leaves to crush everything in Mexico, I figure I’m out of the ‘too busy excuse.’

Above is a picture taken by Chris Danielson. I attended a level two route setting clinic held by him, and Molly Beard of USA climbing. The point of the clinic is to not just to stuff a bunch of route setters in a gym and let them feed off of each others creative energy but also to help cultivate their talents and, most importantly, to help pick and choose setters that USA Climbing will allow to intern and assist for their National Level comps. They use these clinics to help train setters so that they can run, organize and set regional level comps but also to evaluate which setters will move up to set ABS Nationals or SCS Nationals or US Youth Nationals.

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