Unfortunately it looks like this weekend is a washout as far as climbing is concerned. We are postponing our trip to Denny Cove. The trip is tentatively rescheduled for Saturday, March 16. Hopefully the rain will give us a break then!
This Saturday, March 9, weather-permitting the Atlanta Climbing Club is heading to Denny Cove, a mainly sport climbing destination (although there are a few trad routes) in a new area of South Cumberland State Park. Please note that the vast majority of the routes are rated at 5.9 and above. [...]
Join us next Thursday, March 7, 7:00pm at the Concourse Athletic Club for the March meeting of the Atlanta Climbing Club. We’ll be discussing our upcoming trip to Denny Cove in Tennessee. For entertainment, we’ll be watching the films of Reel Rock 13.
This Saturday, weather permitting, the Atlanta Climbing Club is planning on heading to Big Rock Mountain near Pickens South Carolina. Big Rock has a large variety of bouldering and rope climbing. The area is reminiscent of a little Joshua Tree with small formations protruding everywhere. The climbing is SE to [...]
Join us next Thursday, Feb. 7 at the Concourse Athletic Club for our February meeting. Our speaker will be long-time Southern climber and notorious first ascensionist, Shannon Stegg. But he won’t be talking about rock climbing. Instead he’ll be talking about that other thing we sometimes climb… ICE! Come by [...]
Join us this Saturday, Jan. 5 for our first trip of the New Year. We will be climbing at Cherokee Rock Village near the town of Sand Rock, AL. Known colloquially by climbers as just “Sand Rock”, the park offers bouldering, sport, trad and top roping at a wide variety [...]
Join us this Thursday, January 3rd at the Concourse Athletic Club for our monthly meeting. Our speakers will be Tim Lacny and Chuck Parks, discussing their experiences at the 24 Hours of Horseshoe Hell climbing competition in Arkansas. Social time starts at 7:00pm, with the meeting starting at 7:30pm.
Due to the heavy rains this week, we are relocating the club trip this Saturday to Tennessee Wall. Located just north of Chattanooga, Tennesse Wall is the premier destination in the southeast for traditional climbing. The meeting time and place have not changed. Marietta park and ride at 7:00am. But for those meeting [...]
Saturday we started off the New Year with a trip to Tennessee Wall just north of Chattanooga. Despite a high temperature forecast in the low 30’s that day, four brave souls met at the Marietta park and ride before dawn to begin the drive to Tennessee. Chuck, Denmark, Jim and [...]
Just a quick warning that several car break-ins have been reported at T-Wall lately. Some of us were there just last weekend for the club trip. Luckily none of our cars were affected, but someone’s car was broken into that very day. If you’re going to T-Wall, don’t leave anything [...]