Adopt a Crag event: Somerset County, NJ

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I wanted to let you know about an Adopt a Crag event happening in your area.

Where: Sourland Mountain Preserve – Somerset County, NJ
When: Saturday & Sunday, April 20-21
Details: The 8th Annual Sourlands Smackdown!!

The Adopt A Boulder (trails day) has been rescheduled from Fall 2012 due to Hurricane Sandy. It will now be held on Saturday, April 20th, and the Sourlands Smackdown bouldering competition will be held on Sunday, April 21st. Bonus points will be given out to climbers that participate on the trails day event.

This is the first year the Sourlands Smackdown has been added to the already successful Adopt A Boulder! This will be New Jersey’s ONLY outdoor bouldering competition! Climbers that are competing on Sunday, can receive bonus points for volunteering on Saturday’s trail work day. We will be building a connecting trail through a bouldering area, maintaining existing trails, and cleaning up other bouldering areas and landing zones. The Sourland Mountain Preserve is located 45 minutes from Philadelphia and New York City in central New Jersey.

Be sure to register at http://tinyurl.com/Sourland! You can also contact Dave Dendler for more info at ddendler@scparks.org.
Every hour of time you donate to a crag helps show land managers that climbers are responsible stewards. Grab some friends and a pair of work gloves and spend a day giving back to the sport you love! We hope to see you there.

Thanks for your support,

Ty Tyler
Stewardship Manager
Access Fund

Alapocas Cleanup

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UPDATE: The April 12th cleanup is cancelled due to weather.  The April 13th (Saturday) cleanup is still a go.

 

Where: Alapocas Run State Park, Wilmington, DE
When: Friday & Saturday – April 12 & 13
Hosted by: Delaware State Parks
Details: Come out and join Delaware State Parks to help clean-up the Alapocas climbing wall and surrounding areas at Alapocas Run State Park.

On April 12, from 9am to noon, experienced climber volunteers are needed to help remove weeds, litter and loose rocks on the main climbing wall.

On April 12, from 1-4pm and April 13, from 9-11am – volunteers are needed to remove rocks and debris along the base of the wall, along with additional clean-up needs in the surrounding area.

Pre-registraion is required by April 11; contact Alana Iannucci at alana.iannucci@state.de.us or call (302) 242-2941.

Every hour of time you donate to a crag helps show land managers that climbers are responsible stewards. Grab some friends and a pair of work gloves and spend a day giving back to the sport you love! We hope to see you there.

Thanks for your support,

Ty Tyler
Stewardship Manager
Access Fund

Adopt a Crag event happening in your area

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Where: High Rocks, PA
When:  Saturday, September 29
Details:  Help celebrate National Public Lands Day as we team up with DCNR to give High Rocks some much needed love.

We will focus on overall trail maintenace/clean-up as well as specific projects such as:

  • graffiti removal
  • brush removal
  • down tree relocation
  • trail re-routing
  • and more.

For more information, contact Dana at: dana@doylestownrockgym.com

Every hour of time you donate to a crag helps show land managers that climbers are responsible stewards. Grab some friends and a pair of work gloves and spend a day giving back to the sport you love! We hope to  see you there.

Thanks for your support,

Ty Tyler

Stewardship Manager Access Fund

Call to Delaware Climbers

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Hello Fellow Climbers,
During meetings and emails we have mentioned non-profits and the benefits associated with becoming a non-profit. For a climbing club considering outings this is likely the best route. There were a few tasks to complete before considering creating the non-profit.

One task that remains is finding someone who would stand in as the third director. The other two who volunteered are rope climbers. To represent the bouldering community and their interests, it would be beneficial to have someone that boulders volunteer.

The greatest potential for expansion is in bouldering. Most of the roped climbs that are safe are available. Bouldering however, is not a permitted activity and we would like this to change. Currently there are new officials in the parks department and they are openminded about climbing. But they have asked us to help educate them about climbing. We need someone that can help to impress the benefits of bouldering to the parks department and help initiate the changes necessary to allow bouldering in Delaware.

We are also looking for someone that is able to meet at the DRG for accessibility reasons.

We plan to apply for the non-profit status (2 months from now [ we will have a specific date ] ). We need potential directors to volunteer by the previously mentioned date so we can proceed. Even if you do not boulder please volunteer. In the even that we are unable to find a boulderer to volunteer we will begin to evaluate rope climbers.

Only one officer is needed. I was planning to serve as the president. Michael Hartman has volunteered as the Treasurer. If someone else would like to volunteer as the Secretary and be posted officially on the non-profit registration please let us know. Please send all replys to “delawareclimbingcoalition” at good old gmail.com. Had to post email this way to avoid spam.

Thank you,

John

DCC Member

3 Additional Anchors: Donations needed before April 26th

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The Wilmington State Parks has contracted with Earth Treks of MD to install 2 new climbing anchors at Alapocas Run State Park. The local climbing community has an opportunity to donate funds to the park to provide for the installation of up to 3 additional climbing anchors beyond the 2 anchors that are already planned. The anchors will be installed at the Main Wall, where the other anchors are already installed.

The park has estimated that each additional anchor will cost $150 plus some amount for the installation. To fund 3 additional climbing anchors, we will need to raise around $550 to $600.

Earth Treks will be installing the new anchors on April 26 or 27. Therefore, we need to collect any donations and present them to the park prior to April 26.

If you would like to donate towards the additional anchors, here’s what you need to do:

  1. Send an e-mail to michaelh@declimbers.org indicating the amount of your donation. This will allow us to know what donations will be arriving.
  2.  Mail your donation via a check ASAP.
    1. Make the check payable to “Alapocas Run State Park”.
    2. In the memo field on the check, indicate “Donation Rock Climbing Programs”.
    3. Mail to:

Michael Hartman
200 Jackson Blvd
Wilmington, DE 19803-3719

Thanks in advance for your donation!

Rock-Wall Clean-up Alapocas

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The weather finally broke so hopefully everyone will be getting outside soon. To get things started the parks department is going to have a Rock-Wall Clean-up event, thanks to Tim Spies for letting me know about it. It will take place at the Alapocas Run climbing wall April 18th from 10AM until 2PM. The parks department will provide some shovels and such but you are free to bring your own. The clean-up is to remove vegetation and dirt that have settled on the climbs. Bring water and snacks. The parks department will not provide ropes so if you want to get on ropes to clean the wall you must bring your own. Check the attched flyer for further details. Click Here! Rain date TBA.