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FOR 2024 ROCK CLIMBING RESERVATIONS PLEASE CONTACT: Blackbird Mountain Guides   We have exciting news: we sold our NASTC rock climbing school to Truckee-based Blackbird Mountain Guides. We are very pleased to be selling to them. They run a highly respected backcountry ski, avalanche, mountaineering, and rock climbing school. We have known the owner Zeb Blais for many years, respect him very much, and they are a standout company in the mountain guiding world. Zeb is a IFMGA full certified…

Olympic Valley, CA Price: $945 (2 days instruction in group of 6 or fewer + tech talk / Optional Banquet $60)  ($795 til 9/1/24) Skier levels: 6-10 Lodging: email or text our office 530-386-2102 Join us to kick off your ski season right with lots of mileage under the careful tutelage of our top instructors! This carefully crafted curriculum will look at the building blocks of your skill package while skiing you all over the early season terrain. We’ll work…

Price: $995 (3 days instruction in group of 6 or fewer + tech talks / Optional Banquet $60)  Skier levels: 6-10 Lodging: email or text our office 530-386-2102 This camp is designed to get you off that intermediate or advanced plateau. Our highly experience and nationally ranked coaches will help you make the changes you need to meet your skiing goals. Your goals are our goals.  Through a successful methodology including breaking down your skiing to its fundamentals, reviewing the…

Join NASTC and Mesa Rim Climbing & Fitness • Reno to make the switch from climbing indoors to the outdoors! It can be an overwhelming and even scary experience for the unfamiliar climber. Our course has you covered from choosing the right climbing venue for your team and bringing the appropriate selection of climbing equipment, to learning efficient climbing technique on various rock types. Join our certified guides for this intensive course in taking your climbing skills to the next…

This overnight adventure will treat you to two things: the new Frog Lake huts AND a 2 or 3 day rock climbing course with NASTC’s top guides. Hike in the 2.9 miles (1400’from Castle Peak trailhead day 1, and enjoy an afternoon session. After a yummy meal cooked in the 100-year old stone house (with chef’s kitchen remodeled in 2020), enjoy sleeping in the brand new European-styled huts while hearing the water lap the shores of the gorgeous (and swimmable)…

Pick your day, hours, and bring your gang! Rock climbing is a great equalizer, you can bring friends and family members of different experience/ability/fitness/interest levels. If someone wants to watch and “maybe try,” that is fine too. Those who are not climbing can observe safely and enjoy the sun and view. It is a lovely way to spend a day, or part of a day together. We customize our climbs to your groups’ needs, so if you are trying to…