Climbing Merit Badge Clinic
Where: Upper Limits Indoor Rock Gym (Maryland Heights, MO)
Cost: $55 per Scout
Capacity: Limited to 20 Scouts — register early!

Earn the Full Climbing Merit Badge

Scouts will complete all requirements for the Climbing Merit Badge during a hands-on session at Upper Limits, a professionally staffed indoor climbing facility in Maryland Heights.

This clinic focuses on proper climbing technique, safety, and equipment use under the supervision of qualified instructors and merit badge counselors.

Merit Badge Requirements Covered

• Climbing Safety
• Gym safety rules and personal responsibility
• Safe movement in a climbing environment
• Equipment
• Identification and proper use of climbing gear
• Helmets, harnesses, ropes, belay devices, and knots
• Knots & Rope Work
• Required climbing knots and their uses
• Rappelling and belaying fundamentals
• Climbing & Belaying Skills
• Top-rope climbing
• Proper belay techniques
• Communication between the climber and the belayer
• Hands-On Climbing
• Supervised climbs on indoor routes
• Practical application of safety systems

What to Bring

Climbing Merit Badge prerequisites: 

7. Knots. Demonstrate the ability to tie each of the following knots. Give at least one example of how each knot is used in belaying, climbing, or rappelling.

(a) Figure eight on a bight

(b) Figure eight follow-through

(c) Water knot

(d) Double fisherman's knot (grapevine knot)

(e) Prusik hitch applied to the rope

Comfortable athletic clothing

Closed-toe shoes 

Water Bottle / Sack Lunch

Questions? Contact: Kenny Wolff — ken.wolff@scouting.org