Family and Group Specials

• Family Plans
• Group Guided Days

Family Plan options

Our guides can help ensure that your family climbing trip to Mexico is safer, easier, and more enjoyable. They will help you find climbs appropriate to your family’s climbing level and help ensure everyone’s safety. They can set up challenging climbs for your fearless eleven-year old that you’d rather not lead. Climb alongside your children and cheer their progress, as our guide coaches their climbing techniques. Or, have your children cared for by our qualified daycare specialist , while you work with a guide to improve your technique. If you have time, try a few days of each. Whatever your needs, our guides will accommodate your personal agenda and provide you with the one-on-one coaching needed to achieve your goals.

All guided family days are by appointment. Please contact us to schedule a day/s of climbing at your convenience. Trip Planner

Family Price: Day of guided climbing (Price for family of three): $150, $30 per additional child  

Children: Day of guided climbing: 1 child: $90, 2 children: $120

(A parent must accompany Children under 8yrs)

 Day of daycare: $12 per child

(Prices include instruction and all gear)

Group Guided Days

Coming to El Potrero Chico with friends? Want to share a guide in Mexico? We can create a custom guided experience for your group. A guide can help your group find areas appropriate to your level and set up top-rope, and mock lead climbs for you to practice. Our guides will also provide you and your friends with coaching on climbing skills and technique.  Do the members of your group all have a particular goal, such as learning to lead-climb or multi-pitch? If so, we’re happy to instruct you—just let us know in advance what your goals are. All guided group days are by appointment. Please contact us to schedule a day or days at your convenience. Trip Planner

(Prices include instruction and gear not provided by the group)

Two people:            $100 per person / per day       

Three people:           $85 per person / per day   

Four people:                     $75 per person / per day

Five people or more: $65 per person / per day      

Custom College Courses

Our college courses are designed to meet the diverse expectations of students and staff at a variety of university programs.  We recognize that each school has different needs, and encourage you to call or email to discuss your vision. We will be more than happy to work directly with you to create custom course schedule.

Because our instructors are familiar with El Potrero Chico, they are a valuable resource for any university group. They can help you locate good beginner toprope sites, safe “first lead” climbs, and appropriate multi-pitches. They are also accomplished climbers who can set up more difficult climbs for strong students.

We can also provide your school with a variety of services in addition to climbing courses and/or guiding. We offer a menu of course options that includes travel logistics, climbing and non-climbing curriculum, activities, instructors, lodging, food, and equipment. Please click on the links below to read more about what services are available.

Our all inclusive prices range from $70.00 to $110.00 per student/per day depending on options and number of students. Check out our course options below and contact us for a price quote.

Individual instructors can be hired for $130.00 a day

Contact us: guides@elpotrerochico.com.mx or phone 865-684-5887 

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Seminars

• Self Rescue

• Multi Pitching Safely & Efficiently

Self Rescue

(Two days)

Even something as common and simple as getting a rope stuck can be serious in the vertical world—especially when you begin to ascend multiple pitches. As a lead climber, you should have the skills to rescue yourself and your partner in the event of an error, a failure, or an emergency.

This course will cover:  how to escape the belay, hauling systems, line accession, passing the knot while lowering and while on rappel, counterbalance and tandem rappels. The first day and a half will be spent learning and practicing skills on the ground. The afternoon of the second day will be spent testing your newly honed skills on the rock as you rescue an injured lead climber. This course also includes a self rescue pamphlet that will help you to practice rescue skills with your friends after the course. This is an excellent course for the climber who wants to truly be self-sufficient in the vertical world.

Required Skills:

·        Belay skills: Climber should be able to safely and effectively belay.

·        Knots: Climber should be able to confidently tie the figure eight and overhand knots.

·        Coils: Climber should be able to coil a rope into a Butterfly Coil.

·        Anchors: Climber should be able to safely build and clean sport anchors

·        Rappelling: Climber should be able to safely perform a rappel.

 Please contact us to reserve your spot. Trip Planner

Multi-Pitching

Safe and Efficient Techniques for Climbing High

(One day)

One of the most common errors at El Potrero and other sport-climbing destinations is to assume that multi-pitch sport climbing is as easy and fast as climbing a few single-pitch routes back-to-back. (Nighttime at El Potrero Chico is often witness to at least one team of climbers frantically trying to rappel by headlamp.) In fact, both a medley of new skills and an awareness of fresh dangers are prerequisites to multi-pitching.  In addition, climbers attempting to complete some of El Potrero’s lengthy multi-pitch routes need to be at their most efficient to avoid the dreaded unplanned bivy. This one-day, hands-on seminar will set you up with the latest safe & efficient systems for multi-pitching. This course is great for the competent lead climber with little to no multi-pitch experience or some one looking for the latest technical systems.

This course covers: route planning, communication, multi-pitch belay systems, efficient anchors, quick lead transitions, rope organization, linking pitches, and how to safely simul-rappell.

Schedule: The evening before your climb you will meet with your instructor to plan the climb. The next morning will begin with an introduction to multi-pitch theory and systems. Once you feel fully competent in your grasp of multi-pitch procedures, you will climb a short multi-pitch with your instructor. The instructor will guide you as you hone your technique on both the climb and rappel. 

Required Skills:

·        Belay skills: Climber should be able to safely and effectively belay.

·        Knots: Climber should be able to tie the figure eight (as a follow through, as a Flemish bend, and on a byte); and overhand (as a follow through, as a Flemish bend, and on a byte).

·        Coils: Climber should be able to coil a rope into a Butterfly Coil.

·        Anchors: Climber should be able to safely build and clean sport anchors.

·        Rappelling: Climber should be able to safely perform a rappel.

 Please contact us to reserve your spot. Trip Planner