ABOUT CLIMBING
Climbing is an amazing, life-long skill that can introduce you to great friends and take you to beautiful places all over the world. But it can also be intimidating: it requires specialized skills, purpose-built gear, and even an understanding of unique lingo. This section of our site includes information to help clarify what climbing is all about.
First Time
All the info to make your first visit to N3C awesome.
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Roped Climbing Basics
Belaying, top roping, lead climbing, etc. What does it all mean?
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Kids at N3C
What you need to know about bringing kids to N3C.
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Bouldering Basics
The purest form of climbing.
Explained.
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Climbing 101
An introduction to the concepts and lingo of climbing.
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Difficulty Ratings
Making sense of the numbers and the alphabet soup.
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