Cost $580 (Read about why we reduce cost below)
AMGA SPI Course Overview
The Single Pitch Instructor (SPI) Program teaches climbing instructors to proficiently facilitate and instruct the sport of rock climbing in a single pitch setting. The SPI is the only internationally recognized single pitch climbing instructor certification program in the United States. It was developed to fit in the AMGA Rock program. Benefits:
- It significantly improves the instructor’s skill sets and integrates into the next level of training, which includes the AMGA Rock Guide Course and the Multi-Pitch Instructor certification.
- The program is for current, active rock climbers who have a real desire to teach rock climbing to novices in a single pitch setting.
- The SPI Course is a 27-hour training course that normally runs as three consecutive nine-hour days or day classes with evening sessions.
- The SPI Assessment is a minimum of 16 hours run over a two-day period.
- Certification lasts for three years as long as the candidate keeps current AMGA Membership and First Aid Certification.
- After three years current SPI’s can re-take the SPI Assessment to regain the SPI certification.
- Taking any higher level AMGA Course also re-certifies the SPI certification for another three years.
Why KMAC Guides?
With Estes Park, CO as our home base, we are situated in the epicenter of Rocky Mountain National Park tourism. Because of this we see thousands of visits every year from folks on vacation looking to get a taste of what rock climbing is like. We also work closely with the numerous youth camps that call this place home. Because of these things we have an exceedingly high volume of single pitch instructor level work that our guides work. We have learned a lot from our decades of work in the mountains and we are excited to share our deep knowledge of the SPI curriculum and set you up for a successful career in guiding.
Because we care so much about helping out new guides and sharing our SPI knowledge, we are offering our courses at a reduced cost. We believe becoming a mountain guide shouldn’t break your budget, especially in the early stages. So join us for your AMGA SPI Course and kickstart your mountain guiding career.