About Atlas
Three gyms. One curriculum. No filler.
We run climbing gyms in Bend, Boulder and Salt Lake City, and we teach the things our members keep asking us in the middle of a session.
Why we built the courses
The same four questions come up on the mat every week. How do I stop over-gripping. When is one piece enough. What do I do at the anchor. How do I get off a route I cannot finish.
You can answer those in a two-minute conversation, badly, or you can answer them properly once and let people come back to it. We chose the second. Fifteen lessons, written by the head coaches, and the first four are free because the first four are the ones that keep people safe.
What we are not
Not a guiding service. Not a certification. The courses will make you a better partner and a more useful second; they are not a substitute for a day out with an AMGA guide, and every lesson that touches that line says so.
On the rock
The courses come off these routes.
Nothing in the curriculum is theoretical. Every lesson started as a problem one of us hit outside and then had to explain to somebody else at the gym on Tuesday.
Slab, above treeline · Movement Fundamentals
A rack, laid out · Anchor Building
Pitch two, weather coming · Multi-Pitch Leading
The gyms
Bend, Boulder, Salt Lake City.
Boulder, CO · Front Range
Salt Lake City, UT · Wasatch