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Joe
Social climber
Santa Cruz Mountains/Los Gatos
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Jun 11, 2009 - 12:02am PT
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Greg Barnes
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 11, 2009 - 12:18am PT
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Ahem...Joe, didn't you JUST say that you like NEW bolts?
What the heck are you doing climbing stuff with old bolts?
You do have to admit that that bolt looks a lot better than the ones you clipped on Fiddler on the Roof on Fairview last year while you were rope-gunning for me to replace!
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Greg Barnes
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2009 - 06:46pm PT
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Bump - first event is in 11 days, at Planet Granite San Francisco!
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Greg Barnes
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 22, 2009 - 06:22pm PT
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Bump - first one is this Saturday at PG San Francisco!
(Yeah I know most of you locals will be in the Sierra, especially now that it finally seems like summer instead of December...but just in case!)
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jun 22, 2009 - 09:28pm PT
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I'll be around this weekend (somewhere local to go on Sunday) but I don't feel right about spamming my friends.
If I get a partner (anyone?) are there drop in sponsors?
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Greg Barnes
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 22, 2009 - 11:56pm PT
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Jaybro, not sure on the drop-in or last-minute type climbers, I'll contact the PG folks in the morning and find out. It does say on their webpage that they will try to match up folks without belayers before the event, so I'll ask to see if they have some people on the list waiting for partners.
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Greg Barnes
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 23, 2009 - 06:53pm PT
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Jaybro (and anyone else thinking of coming last-minute), PG folks say that there are usually lots of people looking to share belays, and that drop-in or last-minute participants are very common. Come and climb and have fun, no worries if you don't have any sponsors lined up!
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Jun 24, 2009 - 03:18am PT
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Where's Roger?
(photos from Sunday 6/21/09)
Name that climb, if you can??
Roger (Brown) is back in the Valley for another summer rebolting marathon. I delivered a load of ASCA hardware from Greg to Roger, but we are short on the Fixe Double Ring Hangers, due to cost increases. So we are hoping the Planet Granite Climb-a-Thon will scare up some much needed funds for ASCA, and keep Roger deep in these nice belay anchor hangers for the summer and then some!
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Joe
Social climber
Santa Cruz Mountains/Los Gatos
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Jun 24, 2009 - 12:53pm PT
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hard to say.
is he to the right of goodrich?
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Jun 24, 2009 - 02:32pm PT
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> is he to the right of goodrich?
Nope. :-)
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cragnshag
Social climber
san joser
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Jun 24, 2009 - 04:09pm PT
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In addition to bolting hardware, I think the ASCA should provide Roger with some SPF 45! Two gallons should be about right for the summer...
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rcknsno
climber
California
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Jun 26, 2009 - 03:47pm PT
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Amen on the sunscreen! A new ASCA T-Shirt might do the trick too.
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rcknsno
climber
California
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Jun 27, 2009 - 01:58am PT
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Bump...
Temps should be much nicer in SF than elsewhere this weekend.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jun 27, 2009 - 04:05am PT
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Know, if we could minimize the humidity....
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Greg Barnes
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 2, 2009 - 06:46pm PT
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I was waiting until we got the final numbers in, and the first fundraiser was a big success! Donations through the online fundraising came to $4767, with an additional $520 on the day of the event. Add to that the $500 even that several folks donated to the ASCA earmarked for the PG matching, and we're at $5787! Planet Granite will match up to the first $10,000 for the two events combined, and we're more than half way there!
Turnout wasn't that high - probably because it was one of the very first weekends of summer as far as weather in the high country was concerned - but fundraising was great! The winner in both fundraising and feet climbed was a little girl, Kara, who climbed a whopping 1,680 feet - and she arrived a half hour late due to traffic! Here's a link to a little trip report from her proud dad:
http://vocr.sri.com/~herson/climbing/tr/asca.html
And, with a last minute plan from the night before, Em sponsored the Wyde Challenge, in memory of Brutus. Pretty daunting considering that the only couple of participants who had climbed ow just had shorts on and were gunning for climbing as many routes as they could (yep - you have to admit that offwidths are not a quick way to add up vertical footage).
After a couple people gave valiant attempts that failed to leave the ground, Carolyn found some oversized jeans, taped up her ankles, and sought some advice from Lucho, who claimed that he didn't have to do the ow due to his footwear...
She tried it left side in - this is her first time ever on an offwidth!
She fell off, started again, this time right side in, and fought her way up!
A fun time was had by all, with BBQ and beer out in the parking lot afterwards (while the rest of the Bay was sweltering, the Presidio was perfect, low '70s).
The next (and last) event is in just over 2 weeks, Saturday July 18th, at PG in Sunnyvale. If you haven't been before, it's a huge gym with loads of room, outdoor bouldering, and tons of cool cracks. If you live out of the area or you otherwise can't make it, and you don't know anyone participating who you can sponsor, you can donate straight to the ASCA and as long as you let me know that it's earmarked for the Planet Granite Climb-a-thon, PG will match it! Donate online from the little "Make a Donation" buttons on the upper right at www.safeclimbing.org, or donate with a check - either way, please email me so that we know that it's for the PG Climb-a-thon!
Thanks to everyone who participated! Hope to see you on July 18th!
Greg
PS Already contacting Fixe about ordering more rap hangers...we'll keep Roger supplied. He won't wear T-shirts, we bugged him about that in Tuolumne after a guy asked us who the guy was in the red T-shirt rebolting on Pywiack Dome - and we told him "Roger - but he's not wearing a T-shirt."
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Greg Barnes
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 13, 2009 - 10:11pm PT
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Bump - the second and final Climb-a-thon is this Saturday at PG Sunnyvale!
Hope to see some of you there!
Greg
PS It'll be cooler by the weekend, forecast high of 82 for Saturday.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jul 13, 2009 - 10:18pm PT
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There is talk of a lower key, more free form wide wednesday wednesday the 15th.
You in?
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Greg Barnes
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 13, 2009 - 10:36pm PT
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Hey Jay - I'm still on the not-supposed-to-climb doctors orders from my knee injury (doing biking, PT exercises), so I should probably start with a little easy stuff before I even think about ow. But have fun up there Wednesday!
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Greg Barnes
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 14, 2009 - 06:57pm PT
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The Climb-a-thon is this Saturday!
Prizes for most feet climbed, most money raised, and random prizes for participants!
Also for last-minute participants on the day of the event: donate to the ASCA and you're eligible for the prizes, BBQ, and beer!
Prizes include a #6 BD camalot, Mountain Hardwear backpack, Supertopo guidebooks to NorCal bouldering, High Sierra climbing, and Valley free climbing (thanks Chris!), chalkbags, etc!
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Greg Barnes
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 4, 2009 - 01:23am PT
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Sorry for the delay, but I jumped on a plane right after the second Climb-a-thon and just got back in the country.
Planet Granite was awesome in coming up with the idea, implementing it, spending lots of employee time and advertising it, and matching up to $10,000.
Did we make it? Pretty dang close!
$9,831
PG will match, making a total of:
$19,662
WOW!
Thanks to PG and everyone involved!! Right now I'm placing an over-$10K order with Fixe for more double-ring anchor hangers and other anchor gear (it takes a while since they have to stamp "ASCA" on them in Spain and ship them), ordering glue-in gear for replacement at Upper Blacktail Butte in Grand Teton National Park, etc.
You can view the top fundraisers here: http://www.firstgiving.com/asca
Thanks again everyone!
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