We need your help to permanently protect threatened climbing in Icicle Canyon outside Leavenworth, Washington. Some of the most coveted climbing areas in the canyon are located on unprotected, privately owned land, where residential development is butting up against recreational use. We need the climbing community to come together to help us protect these privately owned parcels as public land.
Earlier this year, Access Fund made significant investments from its Climbing Conservation Loan Program (CCLP) to acquire Alphabet Rock, Icehouse Boulders, and the initial access path to Givler’s Dome, with funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and additional grant money. Now, we are working with the U.S. Forest Service to give these climbing areas a permanent home within Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, as public lands.
However, there are several other historic and popular crags in central Icicle Canyon that are still unprotected. We need your support to ensure that this unprotected climbing is acquired and integrated into our public lands system before climbing access is lost forever.
Donate today to help us protect climbing in Icicle Canyon. The first $10,000 will be generously matched by our local partners: The Mountaineers, Leavenworth Mountain Association, Washington Climbers Coalition, and Northwest Mountain School!
WHAT’S AT STAKE
Icicle Canyon is located on ancestral lands of Yakama and np̓əšqʷáw̓səxʷ (Wenatchi). Icicle Canyon’s native name is Nasikelt, meaning “narrow bottom canyon.”