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Carolina Climbers’ Coalition
Fall 2014 Meeting
October 3rd, 2014
Agenda
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Introductions and overview
Treasurer’s Report
Membership report
Area reports
Big picture stuff
One other thing...
Board members
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President – Brian Payst
Vice-President – Phil Hoffman
Secretary – Sarah Wolfe
Treasurer – Morgan Blaisdell
Northern Mountains Rep – Mike Trew
Southern Mountains Rep 1 – Mike Reardon
Southern Mountains Rep 2 – Jon Jones
Northern Piedmont Rep – Neil Rankin
Southern Piedmont Rep
SC Rep – Stephen Scoff
At-large member – Ron Funderburke
At-large member – Laura Boggess
T-shirt volunteer – Kayah Gaydish
Treasurer’s Report
Morgan Blaisdell, Treasurer
Treasurer’s Report
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Significant gifts in 2014
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Rock and Rave Competition
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Triple Crown Bouldering Series
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Stephen Felker
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Seby B. Jones Family Foundation
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Sunrift Adventures
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Re-gear
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Sean Coburn
Thank you!
Secretary’s Report
Sarah Wolfe, Secretary
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Membership
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271 Current members
130 Peregrine ($25) level
78 Quartzite ($50) level
22 Gneiss ($100) level
4 Granite ($250) level
2 Lifetime ($1000) level
35 Student level ($15)
Northern Piedmont
Neil Rankin, Northern Piedmont Rep
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Moore’s Wall
• Meeting with the Park Superintendent next week to plan trail
days and longer-term trail ownership
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Pilot Mountain
• Thanks to Bill Webster for all of his work on hardware
• Bolting was done at the park’s request to spread out climbers
and reduce impacts at the top of the cliff
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Sauratown !
• 5 year agreement
• 7 days a week starting January 1, ending at the end of February
• $5,000 / year so contribute at carolinaclimbers.org
Southern Piedmont
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Crowder’s
• Condolences to the families and friends of Gary Mims
and Mark Byers, both victims of accidents in the park
this year
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Asheboro
• Signed another 2 year lease agreement
• Toilets have been cleaned
Northern Mountains
Mike Trew, Northern Mountains Rep
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Stone Mt.
• New superintendent, but she is familiar with climbers and we
don’t anticipate anything changing. No changes resulted
from the accident earlier this year
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Grandfather Mt. State Park
• Climbing is not allowed per the deed on the property, please
be sure you are climbing on NPS land
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Blue Ridge Parkway
• MOU with the Park Service is being finalized
• Establishes BCC and CCC as partners and climbing as a
legitimate use of the park
• BCC/CCC will manage fixed anchors as an accepted and
inherent part of climbing
Southern Mountains
Mike Reardon and Jon Jones, Southern Mountains Reps
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Laurel Knob and Bradley Falls
• Good trail days
• LK kiosk rebuild is almost done (thanks Drew Dekle
and Jeep Gaskins)
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Buffalo Creek Park
• Handful of boulders, but a great joint effort between the
village of Lake Lure and the CCC
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Rumbling Bald
• Triple Crown on December 13th-15th
• Comp on the 14th, trail day on the 15th
• Really good CCC-park relations and some incredible
potential
South Carolina
Stephen Scoff, SC Rep
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Table Rock
• Season open 9/1 - 12/31
• Not much progress, so if you go politely mention how much you
would like to see a longer season
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Glassy Rock (Pickens)
• Partnership with the town, but need DNR to agree
• Potential for long slab routes 5.5-5.9
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Chattooga River Boulders
• Lots of problems from headwaters down to the lake
• Good area for Clemson students as it’s 30-45 minutes away
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Jocassee Gorges
• Tons of problems and lots of development still going on
• Contact Brad Caldwell at [email protected]
• February bouldering festival in the works
Big Picture Stuff
State Park climbing management plans
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Generally, pretty decent with flexibility at each park
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Submitting comments on the fixed anchor section (too detailed and
specific) and clarifying the no top outs and bouldering, free soloing, the
things listed as “not allowed” versus just “discouraged”
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Appears that the plans are still under review and subject to change
Big Picture Stuff
Linville Gorge
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Derick Calloway is leading an effort to map rescue access points and
climbs that can be reached, funded by a grant from the Access Fund
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Access Fund and maybe AAC grant for a new kiosk at Table Rock
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Plan to apply to have the Table Rock climbers trail included in the official
trails
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Great partnership with SAWS, who have an MOU with the Forest Service
to do trail work
Big Picture Stuff
Rescue
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Appalachian Mountain Rescue Team is trying to form, if you are interested
visit appalachianmountainrescue.org
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Linville Rescue has an affiliate role – less training and climbing rescue
focused, they invite interested climbers to talk to them about it
Big Picture Stuff
Education
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Access for Education Summit in November of 2013
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New Access Fund position: Education Director – NC’s own Travis Herbert
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ROCK Project and “The Pact” - a climber code of ethics highlighting a
basic, high level set of minimum impact behaviors that will keep climbing
areas open and help preserve the climbing environment. Launches
November 1st
Big Picture Stuff
20th Anniversary
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2015 is the CCC’s 20th
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Lots of events in the works, if you have ideas please share!
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Kick off is at Rumbling Bald comp and we have a goal of 200 new
members over the year for the 20th
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Stay tuned for announcements
One more thing...
Hidden Valley (Abingdon, VA)
• Major credit to Zachary Lesch-Huie who has
been working this for the past year
• Closed since 2004
• 200 or so mostly sport routes ranging from 5.5 to 5.13, heavy
in the 5.10-5.12 range
• $45,000 purchase price with $30,000 coming from an
Access Fund Land Conservation Campaign loan
• 3rd CCC acquisition
• Opening date TBD, see carolinaclimbers.org for details and
updates, trail days, etc.
• Donate now at carolinaclimbers.org/hiddenvalley
Thanks for coming out and for supporting the CCC!
Good luck tomorrow if you’re competing!
Have fun and check your knot if you’re roping up somewhere
else!
Now can someone get me a beer?