ACTION ALERT
8th Annual Adopt-a-Crag 2007
Still Time to Organize an Adopt-A-Crag
Organize an Adopt-a-Crag! Volunteer for an Adopt-a-Crag in your area. Take Action Today.
There is still time to sign up to organize an Adopt-a-Crag or to join a scheduled Adopt-a-Crag event in your area.
Our goal is to support 130 Adopt-a-Crags around the country. Last year, the climbing community hosted an amazing 120 events. Following on the success of a banner year, we set our sights on 130 events. To date we have 74 events. We are fast approaching our goal, but we cannot do it without you! If you have ever thought about organizing an Adopt-a-Crag for your favorite climbing area, NOW IS THE TIME!
Adopt-a-Crag is an excellent an avenue for building alliances and partnerships and to plan for the future. Be it a crag clean-up of 8 volunteers or a fundraiser, comp, and trail work day with 100 volunteers Adopt-a-Crag is about giving back to those places we love and use on a regular basis Adopt-a-Crag inspires activism, advocacy, volunteerism, and stewardship. In the eight years since the inception of Adopt-a-Crag, climbers around the country have built and restored thousands of miles of trails, hauled tons of trash, and completed thousands of conservation initiatives.
Centered on community and stewardship, Adopt-a-Crag reaches beyond the sum of its parts. In addition to bringing local climbing communities together and conserving our climbing environments, Adopt-a-Crag also serves to teach stewardship-by-example to the younger generation, improve relations with land managers and owners, strengthen the reputation of the local and national climbing community, and increase our autonomy as a self-governing user group. Adopt-a-Crag is one of our most powerful advocacy tools because it gives decision makers firm numbers of how climbers take care of the places we play.
Help us reach our goal of 130 events and register your Adopt-a-Crag event today. Trash clean up? Trail maintenance? Hardware replacement or climber signage? Invite the local community out to celebrate their crag!
As in the past, you can get all your Adopt-a-Crag information and register online at www.accessfund.org/adopt or contact Charlie Boas at 303-545-6772 x105, charlie@accessfund.org.
To register an event or find one in your area visit: www.accessfund.org/adopt