Access organization CRAG-VT is teaming up with Petra Cliffs Climbing Center for a fundraiser to benefit the Bolton Quarry Driveway Rebuilding Campaign on Wednesday, March 21 from 6:30-9pm. Dubbed “Sinister Six,” the event will test participants’ skills in: anchor building, aid climb, weighted climb, speed/lap climb, rope skills and dry tooling. All participants will receive 2 free day passes to [...]
We’re excited for the new Youth Bouldering Series that will be taking over gyms from MA to PA this March and April. The YBS will feature three qualifying events: this Saturday, March 10 at Philadelphia Rock Gym, March 24 at Gravity Vault in NJ and March 31 at Central Rock Gym in MA; the final will take place April 28 [...]
Part climber, writer, filmmaker and guide, Majka Burhardt is one inspiring lady. She’ll be giving a multimedia presentation in New York City next Monday, March 12 at the Patagonia Tin Shed store. Burhardt has been spending a lot of time in Ethiopia lately. She first went there in 2007 to explore the plethora of unclimbed terrain, and now has become [...]
Attention all climbers! Dartmouth College will be hosting their annual bouldering competition this Saturday, March 3rd. Here’s the basics: - It will be held in Dartmouth’s climbing gym — directions are on the Facebook event page - Preliminaries start at noon and finals for advanced men and women begin at 4:30 - There are 120 brand new problems of difficulties [...]
For those stoked on the history of climbing and wondering “who was that genius who first started wearing spandex?” you should check out Ed Webster’s slideshow at IME in North Conway this Saturday at 7pm. Titled “Evolution of the American climber, from suits and ties to Lycra, 1910-2010,” Webster uses archival photographs to illustrate the development of climbing from Underhill [...]
The Collegiate Climbing Series is back!!! This comp is the first of two bouldering comps at MetroRock for the CCS. Don’t let the name fool you, this competition is open to the public and has divisions for all levels of climbers. Who knows, you could walk away with some pretty cool shwag!!! Here’s the schedule for the day of: Type: [...]
Once again the reigns of the strongest boulderers in the country have conquered the walls of MetroRock in Everett, MA. The Dark Horse Bouldering Series lit things up like a freshly struck match last Saturday. Ian Dory, Daniel Woods, Carlo Traversi, Rob D’Anastasio Francesca Metcalf, Angie Payne, Kasia Pietra and many others competed for the high podium but it was Daniel Woods [...]
The weekend’s carnage is slowly getting cleaned up after a packed house during the Will Gadd slide show and drytooling comp during the Mount Washington Valley Ice Fest, Daniel Woods and Francesca Metcalf win the Dark Horse Bouldering Series Comp and Andy Lewis, aka Sketchy Andy, made a slacklining appearance during the Super Bowl halftime show! Mr. D. Woods showing off his [...]
Ice season just keeps rolling along here in the Northeast. After the Smuggs Ice Bash this past weekend, the festivities now move up to North Conway, New Hampshire for the Mount Washington Valley Ice Festival. It was started 18 years ago by climbing powerhouse Rick Wilcox, who has been a member of countless big climbs including leading an expedition to [...]
First off, we want to congratulate Jake List and Andrea Charest for killing it by taking first place in the 2nd Annual Smugglers Notch Drytooling Competition. We also want to give a big shout out to Petra Cliffs and Bert Severin, with Sunrise Adventure Sports, for putting a ton of hard work into staging such an awesome event. Thanks to the [...]
