April is the time for the big spring trip (Yay!!) and this email is to help you plan your stay for the trip. This year we will be going to Looking Glass near Brevard, NC to climb on April 11th – 12th.. For those that haven’t gone on one of [...]
Hello All!! Club’s March trip is going to be on Saturday, Mar 7 at Palisades park in Alabama. About Palisades Park: The climbing area in a state park and there are variety of trad and top rope routes out there. ~2.5 a hours of drive, located not far from Birmingham. Please [...]
Hello All!! Club’s February trip is going to be on Saturday, Feb 7 at Jamestown in Alabama. About Jamestown: It is a trad climbing area, ~2 hours of drive, comprised of nearly one mile of 80 to 100 foot tall sandstone climbing cliff located in northeastern Alabama. There are routes [...]
Hello Climbers, Welcome to the new year, the club board members have now been assigned to their positions. Here they are: Club President – Denmark Blount Past President – Jim Allison Program Coordinator – Greg Allen Trip Coordinator – Bindal Shah Treasurer – Susan Stewart Trail Day and Access Issues [...]
The club’s first trip for 2015 is going to be on Saturday, Jan 10. We have two trip options this time and you can choose any option you like. The second option requires a sign-up. Option 1: Rock climbing at T-wall It is a trad climbing heaven near Chattanooga. Most [...]
Rain caused the trip to be postponed from Saturday to Sunday, which resulted in a smaller group. The 2 1/2 hour drive seemed short with good conversation including the Theory of Relativity. The weather was sunny with highs in the upper 50’s and almost no wind. The rock was dry. [...]
The Atlanta Climbing Club November trip to Looking Glass, NC, was this past weekend. Most carpooled individually and made their way up Friday night and one tried Saturday morning, but more on that later. The weather was a perfect fall day, sunny and cool. Many leaves were down but the [...]
This Saturday November 8 we will head to Looking Glass Rock outside of Brevard, North Carolina. Looking Glass offers a mix of everything. Moderate single pitching at the South Side offers crack climbing, while the Nose area has a multitude of multi-pitch eyebrow slab climbing. We will be leaving the [...]
For our October trip, once again we’ll be headed to Kentucky for Rocktoberfest at the Red River Gorge. The Red is the premier destination for sandstone climbing east of the Rockies. Although most famous for its steep and pumpy sport climbs, an abundance of trad climbing can be had as [...]
After our September trip to Sunset Park has been rescheduled for this Sunday September 14th. Sunset Park offers up some of the best single-pitch traditional climbing in the Southeast in the summer time. Sunset has a great variety of difficulties, ranging from 5.6 to 5.12, but don’t forget your rack [...]