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Spring 2016 Events: Climbers Crush Cleanups from Sending Temps to Trails Day

On June 4, 50 volunteers joined Mid Atlantic Climbers for the final stewardship project of the spring season at Carderock Recreation Area, where they worked on trail mulching and maintenance in a fitting observance of National Trails Day. After trail work was done, volunteers celebrated a great day of work and a successful spring season with […]

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An Epic Fall Season Caps off a Year of Stewardship

Access, Adopt-a-Crag / Chris Irwin

On Saturday, November 14th, Mid Atlantic Climbers swarmed the boulders at Northwest Branch Stream Valley Park in Silver Spring, MD. More than 40 volunteers came out for a morning of trail work, graffiti removal, trash clean-up, and even the hard work of invasive species removal. After all the work was completed, volunteers enjoyed pizza, some

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Rockfest Recap 2015

Adopt-a-Crag, climbing / Chris Irwin

The last Saturday of August was a beautiful day at Coopers Rock, WV, and climbers from DC, MD, VA, WV and PA gathered at the Trout Pond for a day of trail work and maintenance projects at one of the regions premiere bouldering destinations. In coordination with the Coopers Rock Foundation, Mid Atlantic Climbers hosted their

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Rockfest 2015 Postponed

Adopt-a-Crag, Uncategorized / Edwin Bachetti

Friends and Volunteers, Morgantown, WV is expecting severe rainfall and thunderstorms this weekend, which will prevent us from doing the service projects and stewardship activities we’ve planned. We’ve made the tough call to postpone Rockfest 2015 to a later date this spring or early fall. We’ll announce the revised date soon. We appreciate your understanding

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New trail at Mt. Gretna/Park at Governor Dick will help minimize climber impacts

Access, Adopt-a-Crag, climbing / Jackie Feinberg

On May 9, volunteers at the Park at Governor Dick, a popular diabase bouldering area in central Pennsylvania, built a new trail to the Beautiful Day Boulders. Previously, there was no obvious path to these two sets of boulders, resulting in climbers bushwhacking at various spots in the forest. The new trail will direct climber

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Preserving Climbing Access Fall 2014

Access, Adopt-a-Crag / Chris Irwin

Another fall season is in the history books, and along with some great days spent rock climbing, Mid Atlantic Climbers were busy preserving climbing access through stewardship events, education, and outreach. Thanks to the amazing efforts of our volunteers, Mid Atlantic Climbers hosted three Adopt-a-Crag events showing the climbing community’s continued commitment to the stewardship

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MAC and Access Fund Conservation Team come to Sugarloaf Mountain

Adopt-a-Crag / Edwin Bachetti

Hot off the heels of a hugely successful Rockfest, MAC volunteers were back at it; this time at Sugarloaf Mountain in Dickerson, Maryland. For many who have climbed or hiked there, it’s pretty obvious that the Green Trail leading to the summit is in desperate need of some love. Sections have eroded so badly that the

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Rockfest 2014 Recap: Thanks to all of our volunteers!

Adopt-a-Crag, climbing / Penny Riordan

If you were at Rockfest 2014 at Coopers Rock at the end of April, chances are you had a great time doing trail work, camping out, eating good food, drinking good beer and sending some sandstone. This was our largest Rockfest with more than 80 people in attendance, which is pretty awesome. Big thank you

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Mid-Season Update: Great Turnout at Fall Events

Adopt-a-Crag, climbing, Uncategorized / Penny Riordan

This fall, Mid Atlantic Climbers planned a record five adopt-a-crags. After three events, we’ve had a record number of volunteers out. The season’s third event was held this past weekend at Great Falls National Park in Virginia. This was MAC’s 11th event at the park and, despite the federal government being shut down until the

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Tired, sore, and covered in dirt

Adopt-a-Crag, climbing, Uncategorized / Nicole Martino

Tired, sore, and covered in dirt. Great way to spend a beautiful Saturday no? I’d say so. As a volunteer and group leader at last Saturday’s Carderock Adopt-A-Crag event, my experience can be easily summed up by the above, but that’s not terribly interesting. I showed up early (about 8 am), and exhausted after a

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