We are getting ready for our 2011 Summer Camp Series! We are back for our 10th summer of adventure, exploration, fun & friends! We have something for everyone this year! Don’t miss out this summer! Our camps fill fast with budding young climbers! Check out our dates and brief descriptions of our 2011 Summer Rock Climbing Camps! Reserve the experience for your young climber! Online Registration opens Jan 1st

June 20th – June 24th

Session 1:
Ground School Camp
On belay! This is the perfect camp for the next generation of climbers in the community! In Ground School Camp, new climbers learn injury prevention, knot tying, climbing and belay safety. Each camp day climbers learn the fundamentals to climbing and develop a firm foundation for footwork. The climbers take part in daily stretching, yoga and body movement exercises for climbing and challenge themselves daily in bouldering and top rope climbing. In this theme-week of camp, the ground work for self-confidence is gained through collective team building, climbing games, problem-solving activities and even art projects! Join in the fun!

5 days @ Stone Summit Climbing & Fitness Center 9a-4p
Ages: 7+
$285/$85 non-refundable deposit due at time of registration
Max participants: 24

Rope it Up!
This camp takes young climbers with climbing experience to the next level. This is a perfect camp for climbers interested in committing to one of our area youth team programs. Experienced young climbers improve technical skills; strengthen climbing fundamentals, learn new climbing drills, techniques and movements in our innovative training clinics. Climbers refine route reading skills, explore lead climbing and rappelling. This camp is not without the traditional camp antics & excitement!

5 days @ Stone Summit Climbing & Fitness Center 9a-4p
Ages: 8+
$285/$85 non-refundable deposit due at time of registration
Max participants: 24

June 27th- June 30th

Session 2:
My First Climbing Camp
This unique camp is a complete exploration of indoor rock climbing for our youngest climbers! Young climbers have fun every day, gaining independence, confidence and reaching new heights. Climbers start their indoor climbing experience in this new surrounding learning climbing terminology, fundamentals, commands for climbing safety, tumbling and injury prevention. Each camp day is full of bouldering and top rope climbing, agility, balance and coordination games for stimulating growing young bodies.

5 days @ Stone Summit Climbing & Fitness Center 9a-1p
Ages: 4-7
$265/$65 non-refundable deposit due at time of registration
Max participants: 24

July 14th – July 19th

Session 3:
Epic Adventures Camp
CAVING, BOULDERING & SPORT CLIMBING. WHO WOULDN’T?! This camp is the ultimate transition from the plastic environment to the real rock for youth climbers. Climbers get surreal exposure to outdoor sport climbing, caving and camping in a safe, fun and nurturing environment. The first two days lay the foundation for the camp experience. Climbers learn practices like, Leave No Trace, trail walking, campfire safety and travel safety. We will work on setting climbing goals and expectations for the week of adventure, and practice outdoor climbing safety skills. We start the weekend with a caving adventure in Tennessee, followed by a roadtrip to the DANIEL BOONE NATIONAL FOREST to climb the most pristine sandstone of the south in the Red River Gorge of east-central Kentucky. Every day in Kentucky, we will get up early and climb hard all day! To maximize our climbing days, participants will stay in cabins over their stay in the gorge. Its guaranteed climbers will leave this camp stronger, more independent and confident climbers. (For mature and/or seasoned climbers)

2 days ground school @ Stone Summit 9a-4p
4 days/3 nights outdoors
Ages: 12 yrs + (or permission of head coach)
$525/$175 non-refundable deposit due at time of registration
Max participants: 24
+some camping equipment required
++food provided on travel days

August 1st – August 3rd

Session 4:
BoulderFest!
This exhilarating adventurous camp exposes young climbers to some of the best climbing boulder crags in the southeast! We hit the road on the first day covering boulder ground school safety and learning wilderness conservancy practices like Leave No Trace at Atlanta’s own BOATROCK crag. Day 2, climbers travel to SANDROCK, in Steele, AL to put their newly learned boulder techniques into a day of fun filled practice. Day 3, climbers travel to LITTLE ROCK CITY in North Chattanooga, TN for a boulder fest climbing day through an amazing fortress of rock. Climbers will return to the city each day with a new appreciation for the environment and pride in their experience!

3 day trips to southeast area boulder crags 7a-5p
Ages: 10 yrs + (or permission of head coach)
$395/$125 non-refundable deposit due at time of registration

Max participants: 14

Here are ways to save 10% off on our camp fees!*
1. Register with full payment received by March 30th
2. Register a participant for more than one camp
3. Register two or more participants

*not to be combined.
Scholarships are available. UCC always host equal opportunity camps!

How do I register a child for the Summer Camp?

The easiest and secure method to register for the Summer Camp is through our simple and convenient online registration form. Please fully complete the form. At the end of the form you will be directed to payment. A deposit and/or full payment must be submitted with the registration form before it is complete. Your deposit will be applied to the overall camp fee. If you have a 2nd child, please fill out separate forms and remember to take 20% off the second child’s overall camp fee. You will receive an email confirmation within 48 business hours.

What forms do I have to complete for the Summer Camp?

Complete the Health & Medical Forms, EL Waiver Form, and the Stone Summit Climbing & Fitness Center Waiver Form. Please send these complete forms with a copy of your/child health insurance card to our postal address. Help us be prepared for the first day of camp and send these forms in early. Thank you!

Urban Core Climbing is doing our part to reduce our carbon footprint. If your child is currently enrolled in a UCC Team Program or has participated in a summer camp, we have all paperwork on file.

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations more than 3 weeks prior to camp will be refunded less the non-refundable registration fee. Cancellations of camps fully paid within 2 weeks prior of camp will be refunded 50%. Cancellations within 1 week of camp cannot be refunded. No refunds or credits will be given to no shows. If a participant is forced to leave camp due to injury, illness or family emergency, a prorated amount of up to 50% of the fee may be refunded. UCC may cancel any camp due to weather, enrollment or logistics complications and will grant full credit towards another camp or UCC programs.

Equal Opportunity Programs

Urban Core Climbing Camps powered by ExperientialLife, are equal opportunity programs. We practices life lessons of human kindness, fairness and equality. We do not discriminate against the child or family on race, color, gender, orientation, physical ability, faith, beliefs or political ideology.

About the Urban Core Program

There are life lessons that children of all ages and abilities can learn about themselves and each other through climbing. The Urban Core Climbing Summer Camp Series is an alternative and progressive summer camp program that gives young climbers a chance to sharpen their skills, meet new people, and most importantly, have fun. We stress safety awareness, cooperative group dynamics, and promote personal responsibility in a safe experiential learning environment. The UCC Summer Camp Series offers a full itinerary of recreational and instructional programs to help every young rock climber meet individual goals.

Our Summer Rock Climbing Camp Series aims to expose kids to the basic skills of rock climbing and life lessons. Urban Core Climbing Programs are holistic and progressively about self confidence, teamwork, communication, diversity, establishing goals and working towards them. In our unique setting, our students experience the results of their own actions. They meet challenges, experience difficulties, and exult in success. Empowered by their own personal experience, they leave our camp experience stronger, more focused, and ready to meet, challenge and change struggles their daily lives. Urban Core Climbing Camps serves the youth community in and around the Atlanta area. The Urban Core Climbing Summer Camp Series is affordable!!! We offer multi-child discounts, early payment discounts and financial scholarship assistance.

Our Staff

Urban Core Climbing staff is supportive and encouraging. We deeply believe in the power of adventure to enrich and guide young lives. It is our task to make that experience happen in constructive and nourishing ways. Our camp staff is more than just guides --they are role models. All are mature, outgoing and committed to the UCC purpose. We build on their rich personal experience with extensive staff training. We strive by role modeling and direct action to teach the importance to have passion, compassion and integrity in our daily lives, hoping that our future leaders will be able to make decisions that come from their hearts as well as their minds. All staff members have First Aid/CPR certification and our senior guide has college degrees in education, and is certified by the AMGA and Wilderness First Responders.