2019 Climbing Survey Results
2019 WA Climber Survey Report Part I-compressed 2019 WA Climber Survey Report Part II-compressed
2018 Larrabee State Park stewardship day
July 14, 2018 Climbers have been doing stewardship projects at Larrabee for over ten years. This year we did grafitti removal at the beach and among the boulders inland at Lost Ledge. As is standard, we ended the work day with plenty of time for climbing. Thirteen climbers showed up and some were [...]
National Trails Day at Three O’Clock Rock
Eightmile Creek Trail - June 2, 2019 Climbers have been doing volunteer trailwork on the Eightmile Creek trail since 1999. Over the past two years, we worked on a new switchback where the trail is heavily eroded in the woods leading up to Three O'Clock Rock, the most accessible crag in the traditional [...]
2017 Tieton River Stewardship Update
The Tieton River area hosts a wide variety of sport and trad climbing, and some excellent bouldering as well. In 2017 the Access Fund Conservation Team was in the state for a couple of months and, working on contract with the Washington Climbers Coalition (WCC), they supervised volunteers working to stabilize [...]
2017 Climbing Management Plans at Beacon and Index
Beacon plan Index plan Olympia, June 21, 2017. Years of work by rock climbers culminated this week when Washington State Parks Director Don Hoch signed a new climbing management plan for Forks of the Sky State Park (Index Town Walls) and an updated plan for Beacon Rock State Park. The Forks of the [...]