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Athena Rock Climbing

We turn the mountains into the ultimate classroom for learning how to climb. We offer private guiding in addition to our courses and events.

Visit our www.athenarockclimbing.com or email us at [email protected] to register!

04/07/2026

💫 Closing out another Joshua Tree season!!
Memorable days, sharp granite, and a whole lot of growth—thank you to everyone who shared it with us.

As temps rise, we’re heading north.
Next stop: Index, WA | May–September 🥳
Steeper lines, bigger objectives, and prime conditions all summer.

📣📣 We have two Index clinics to announce:
• Self Rescue Clinic // June 5-6th
• Big Wall Clinic // July 11-12th
Intermediate–Advanced Climbers // All Genders Welcome

These aren’t intro courses—these are for climbers ready to move more efficiently, solve problems, and step into bigger terrain.

Clinic perk:
Book a clinic + add on private days and receive 15% off guiding to get more time for practice and repetition.

Index season is short—come make the most of it.
🔗 Contact us via link in bio to sign up!

04/02/2026

Stumbled upon these pics while scrolling through the camera roll. Such a fun day out with when we collaborated to make a Trad Confidence clinic happen in Joshua Tree!

Can’t say enough how amazing this day was. Folks learned how to place gear, build anchors, mock lead, and some even hopped on the sharp end to lead routes with an instructor close by to give them feedback in real time!

Shoutout to .la.ka , the guide behind the collaboration who worked hard to make this day a reality! So grateful to her and all she does for her community and ours!

Can’t wait to run into this crew out in the mountains!

04/01/2026

This ain’t no April fools joke— Emma ( ) is the real deal!!! She just became the youngest person to join our mentorship program. Our curriculum is designed for adults, but that hasn’t scared Emma away. She is 100% up for the challenge and is acing it so far!

In our first three days together Emma climbed a 350ft multi-pitch route, learned how to place gear and build anchors, and even led her very first Trad climb!!!! We are so proud of her and are grateful for this opportunity to be part of her climbing journey.

Stayed tuned for more of our adventures, and hype her up in the comments!!!

02/09/2026

My multi-pitch self-rescue course is not for the faint of heart! I get you off the ground and into multi-pitch terrain, creating (safe, and controlled) epics along the way for you to navigate!

I teach invaluable skills for climbing, but more so I teach you how to think critically and solve common problems in climbing.

Want to up your game? Book any two days of private guiding with me and use those days to run through my multi-pitch self-rescue curriculum!

01/20/2026

A clip from a day in the life on an Arctic expedition seemed like an appropriate clip to match the audio, but this audio doesn’t only apply to expeditions.

What do you measure? Who and what do you prioritize?

01/13/2026

Relax it’s a joke, that’s only funny bc it’s true. We love the men who are brave enough to work with us, but we certainly do not flit with them. That’s a true lol.

Proud to have created a culture that empowers my guides to assert themselves and speak their truth 🔥

12/23/2025

Relax it’s just a joke that’s only funny because it’s true…

We do guide the masses regardless of gender, and we even have two male guides on our team now, but we will forever be a girls girl organization and we refuse to be sorry about that 💁🏼‍♀️

We have a couple women’s climbing evens coming up. Don’t miss out on the only event that gets you into multi-pitch terrain while maintaining 2:1 student to instructor ratios! No one customizes curriculum or turns the mountains into a classroom like we do— our 14 years in the industry allows us to confidently say so 🔥

🔗 Link in bio with dates and registration — spaces are already almost sold out for the Spring!!

12/18/2025

Maybe if I got on this more than twice a season I’d actually send… but I only like going with the Offwidth Masters bc they are so fun 💁🏼‍♀️

We promise you’ll get better at Offwidth climbing during .pack Art of Offwidth clinic, but we can’t promise that you won’t have to wrestle our guides off of this mega classic because it’s so freaking fun!!!

Thanks to .pack , , and for the beta!!

12/18/2025

Laughing with the dream team that is the Athena Rock Climbing goddesses + Pamela Shanti-Pack’s Art of Offwidth crew!!!

Our Fall event was pure magic. SO stoked for more wide crack fun in Joshua Tree March 13-15th!! The event is already halfway filled— contact us now to snag a spot before they run out!!

12/18/2025

Spending a lot of time giving lead belays on account of all my RAD mentees who are hopping on the sharp end and absolutely crushing it on lead in Joshua Tree.

We’ve only just begun and my mentees are already hopping on 5.9 Trad in the park, with 5.10 and above just around the corner.

It’s not all about the grades though. Progress is huge for those who just started getting into Trad and are already leading routes 5.6 and below after just a few sessions.

Our mentorship program is proving to pay off for the folks that are putting in the work, investing in themselves. From movement, to gear placement, to rescue skills, to efficiency, to overall safety and competency — this crew is unstoppable!

PLUS this program has grown into a little community where they can all find climbing partners! We love seeing them partner up to climb in between sessions 🫶🏼

I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m super freaking proud of all my mentees!! Keep up the good work y’all!!!

PS Attention spans are too short to share all my mentees in one post so just because you don’t see a pic of you don’t mean I’m not proud of you! It just means your pics weren’t closest in my photo library 🤪

10/20/2025

🎊🎊 Community Highlight 🎉🎉
Gotta give a shoutout to this young crusher for being the youngest person to complete our Joshua Tree “alpine day”, connecting the Lost Horse Wall summit to Upper Rock Garden Valley! We would have continued on to more summits, but instead Emma decided to finish the day with a lap on Split Personality— a classic Jtree 5.9+!!!

This day in Joshua Tree is part of a bigger project to send FIFTY routes in FIFTY states!! SUCH a rad goal to have!! Be sure to follow to tag along on her adventure to climb the country!!

We love that Emma is able to dream big and set amazing goals in something she is so passionate about. We know that we will see pictures of her climbing up on El Cap in no time!! And shoutout to mom and dad for helping her make her dreams come true 💫

Keep crushing Emma! And stay safe out there!!

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