8th Annual Adopt-a-Crag 2007
Presented by REI, GORE-TEX Products, & CLIF Bar
Adopt-a-Crag 2007 is off to a great start, with 39 events already registered and a dozen events completed. We’ll be measuring our progress this year by picking our way up The Nose of El Cap, reaching for our summit goal of 130 events.
We’re currently 30% of the way there, on pitch 10, above the Stovelegs Cracks and approaching the top of Dolt Tower.
Title Sponsor Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), Presenting Sponsor GORE-TEX Products, and Contributing Sponsor Clif Bar are the Access Fund’s partners in presenting this event and Adopt-a-Crag would not be possible without their continuous support.
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.
Seasoned veterans and first-time organizers alike have recognized a need for stewardship at their local crags and decided to bring the community together to celebrate those climbing areas through Adopt-a-Crag.
First time Adopt-a-Crag organizer, Toni Waters, confessed at the conclusion of her successful May 2007 event in Grand Junction, CO, “I’ve definitely learned the power of community from all of this. It’s so amazing to be a part of the change out there; I fall more in love with it the more work I do there.”
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!
To register an event or find one in your area visit:
www.accessfund.org/adopt
For more information contact Kristo Torgersen: 303-545-6772 x105, kristo@accessfund.org