Our Youth Climbing Club is the perfect way for your young climber to get into the sport of climbing safely and have a lot of fun at the same time. The club meets for two hours twice a week to work with coaches on climbing techniques and skills.
We have worked with schools doing ACTION group programs which are specialized Team Building programs that we start with freshmen in their classrooms, 10 students at a time. We set the group up with a Senior Mentor who works with them throughout the process and afterwards becomes a liaison between them and the upperclassman world.
Higher Ground has been teaching scouts the Climbing Merit Badge since it was first introduced in 1997. Since that time we have taught the Climbing Merit Badge to over 1,000 Boy Scouts!
Did you know that Rock Climbing and mountaineering was done throughout the Bible? Taking your Youth Group climbing gives them the opportunity to walk in the footsteps of some of these great men, and we can help make your time here very meaningful for the youth in your group.
At Higher Ground we look at our team building program a little differently. In the past traditional team building programs have been used for “conflict resolution” whatever that is, and for “group team dynamics” another undefinable oxymoron.
Higher Ground offers professional rock climbing guide services with licensed and insured guides. Due to the shortage of larger scale adventure sports operations in the Midwest and Eastern United States, many groups have found few professional instruction alternatives.