If you have any questions about the programs below, please contact our Head Coach Gerard Garnier at ​coach@climbyukon.com
Little Crusher & Prep. Teams : Registration Opens August 1st at 8:00am Yukon Time: Registration Link will be posted here at that time
Development and Competition Teams: Registration for Tryouts are open.
Devo / Comp Tryouts Registration HERE
Climb Yukon Association (CYA) is the sport Governing body for indoor climbing in the Yukon and is a Climb Escalade Canada (CEC) member association. As the governing body CYA provides training and competition opportunities for Yukon Youth.
For the 2025/2026 season, we will be offering Team programs for youth born in or before 2019 that are based on CEC's athlete development model. Team programs are for kids who are stoked to improve in climbing and would like to commit to multi-month mulit day per week programs. Shorter kids' camps will be available off and on throughout the year (dates TBD).
Development and Competition Teams*. See link above. Spots are limited.
Our team programs focus on utilizing climbing to teach young people to become resilient, confident, and kind.
We create space and give the opportunities for our climbers to be challenged, set goals, develop agency and learn from their successes and failures. We focus on strong team culture and on giving athletes the opportunity to achieve their athletic goals and dreams with the ultimate goal of helping them be successful in their lives.
We believe that healthy competition teaches life skills that help youth thrive not only in sport, but in school, work, personal lives, and most importantly in their relationships. Team climbers are encouraged to attend competitions at the appropriate level for them. We strive to teach our climbers that competition is not about winning or losing, by focusing on learning to be process oriented and on doing the best you can on any given day.
As Climbers move through the programs they will be given developmentally appropriate opportunities to challenge themselves and explore what they are capable of. We focus on individualized skill development through structured and play based learning. Climbing is unique in that there is no “one way” to climb a route. Coaches use an ecological learning approach to guide climbers to discover how to accomplish the skill, drill or climb.
A description of each program can be found in the chart. In depth details will become available prior to registration opening.
Team Values: Team Culture is very important to us. From day one we focus on instilling team values and holding our athletes and coaches accountable to maintaining them:
Gerard Garnier: Head Coach, Sport Coordinator
Gerard has been our head coach for the past three seasons after relocating to Whitehorse from Canmore. He was lucky to grow up in the mountains developing a love of the outdoors and sport at an early age. Gerard pursued high level sport in cross country skiing where he raced in nationally and in World Cup races. After retiring from competition in 2012 Gerard began climbing and has been passionate about climbing ever since. As well as being an experienced climber and having been a high level athlete Gerard is an Osteopathic Manual Practitioner. Gerard is passionate about sport, training and working with youth to achieve their goals in sport.
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