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Outdoor Ascent

Your first outdoor climbing adventure with Sportrock Climbing Guides

Cost: Members $65 | Non-Members $75

Required Grade Level: All experience levels welcome

Class Length: 2 hour class 

This program is extremely popular and fills quickly.

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Outdoor Ascent

Outdoor Ascent is a two-hour, guided climbing experience designed by Sportrock Climbing Guides (SRCG) for anyone ready to feel the thrill of climbing outside. This experience is all about exploration and enjoying time on real rock, no lesson needed!

You’ll spend your time exploring climbs, soaking in the environment, and enjoying the freedom that comes with being outdoors. Our guides handle the logistics so you can focus on the experience!

Whether it’s your first time touching outdoor rock or you’re simply looking for a casual, low-stress way to get back outside, Outdoor Ascent offers an unforgettable taste of climbing beyond the gym.

Outdoor Ascent Fall Calendar

Sessions become available to register six weeks away from their start times. We will be running sessions on the following days:

  • Saturday 9/5/26

  • Sunday 9/20/26

  • Saturday 10/3/26 

  • Sunday 10/18/26

  • Saturday 11/7/26

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Destination Climbing

Let Sportrock Climbing Guides plan your next vacation so that you can focus on sending!  From the beaches of Sicily to the limestone canyons of northern Spain, we offer full service national and international guided outdoor rock climbing vacation packages.  We offer several destination trips a year, or can customize one for your group!

Check out the rest of our outdoor classes

Sportrock Climbing Guides offers programming designed by experts certified by the American Mountain Guides Association; in the climbing gym and outdoors at local crags Virginia, DC, Maryland, and West Virginia, and destination trips all over the world.

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Private Guiding

Want to climb outside, but don’t know where to start?  Prefer to learn in a private setting, with instruction tailored exactly to your goals?

 

Our rock climbing guides provide customized instruction and outdoor climbing trips to a wide range of local rock climbing spots.  Examples include gym-to-crag instruction at Great Falls, Va or your first multi-pitch climb at Seneca Rocks, Wv. 

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