Friday Climbing Clinic
City Park, Lander, Wyoming
Friday, July 11, 2025 - 8am-4pm

About Josie + Alex:
Josie McKee: A playful adventurer at heart, Josie strives to bring this ethos to others, providing mindset coaching to climbers, stress resilience training to first responders, and support to her climbing partners. Before moving to Lander in 2020 to focus on sport climbing, she spent over a decade focused on climbing bigwalls and alpine peaks. Due to objective hazards and length of time spent on these objectives, the intensity is greater and the partner dynamics are amplified. A good partnership can create an experience of a lifetime, a bad partnership can lead, not only to failure, but to downright dangerous situations. Josie has found that good partnership is not just about chemistry, but also about mutual desire to cultivate that partnership. She is excited to share what she has learned and help folks create climbing partnerships that lead to send trains and good times.
Alex Bridgewater: Born in Texas and raised in Massachusetts, I started being active at a very young age. I spent most of my time growing up skateboarding, snowboarding, rock climbing, or hiking in the Adirondack mountains. I attended Plymouth State University in New Hampshire and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology. Lucky for me I spent most of my days in college in the classroom, studying, or rock climbing as it is home to Rumney, a world class climbing destination. This is where I really cut my teeth as a climber. I attribute a lot of my development to this place. Currently I live in Lander, Wyoming where I spend most of my time rock climbing outside, working with clay, or with friends. I have been in the rock climbing world since 2004 and since then have climbed all over the globe in all facets of the sport. I have spent the better part of the last decade as a professional rock climbing coach, working with world class coaches. I have since received a Master’s degree in Sport and Performance Psychology from the University of Western States. With this, I work with youth, adult, professional, and novice athletes; teams, coaches, groups, and parents.
About Send Trains & Soulmates - Climbing is a Team Sport
There are certain people that when you’re with them, you just climb better. You send things you didn’t think were possible. This is not just luck. Human performance is impacted by social context. But finding that person out there in the world and having your schedules align for you to send your project might be harder than finding your soulmate on a dating app – it happens, but it’s rare. In this clinic, we’ll help you cultivate this magical partner dynamic, rather than leaving it up to chance: you'll climb harder and have a more fun! We’ll start with creating some awareness of how you need to be supported, then ways to be better coaches/teammates for each other, through various partnership dynamics: partners of different abilities, partners that are on a similar level, romantic partners as climbing partners. Come hang with us for the day, bring a partner (you’ll learn so much about each other) or come solo (maybe you’ll meet your climbing soul mate) – either way, you'll be with a great crew!
Thank you to Mind Athlete AND Inner Source Performance Psychology for sponsoring this clinic!
Prerequisites:
This clinic is best suited for intermediate and advanced climbers who are experienced lead belayers.
Gear Requirements:
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Personal Climbing Gear (harness, shoes, helmet)
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Water, snacks
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Sun protection
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Rope + quickdraws if you have them (not required)