I've had a few questions come up and thought I'd share.
This course runs roughly weekly February through May. There are 13 classroom lectures/practicals and six weekend field trips (three of those are overnight.) The actual schedule and list of topics is posted on www.everettmountaineers.org. Yes, this schedule is way more demanding than some of the other programs out there.
Each of the Mountaineers branches subscribes to an agreed minimum set of standards in running their Basic Climbing Course. At root, we teach the same fundamentals, but beyond that, each program can be distinctly different in personality. The number of lectures, field trips, class size, student instructor ratio, depth of treatment in topic and scope of what goes beyond the minimum standard can be different.
This year, we will probably have 40 to 50 students. That puts us in a similar class in terms of size to the BOALPS and WAC. It's also very different from the 200+ students that will go through the Seattle Mountaineers Basic Climbing Course.