Craggin' Classic 2009
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When: Oct 9, 2009 - Oct 11, 2009

Where: Salt Lake City, UT

This year's annual AAC Craggin Classic will be held in Salt Lake City, UT, October 9-11th.

The venue will be located in the beautiful Big Cottonwood canyon where there's cool camping and hundreds of climbing routes. With the help of the Salt Lake Climber's Coalition and the strong score of local climbers, this year's event promises to be bigger, better and more productive than ever before.

Craggin'Classic SLC schedule

Friday, October 9th

3-6pm-Registration open, vendor venue open

6-7pm-Happy Hour with kegs and Redwood Creek wine tasting

7pm-Petzl and Mountain Khaki sponsored Tandoor Grill Dinner served at Spruces by SLCA members and Petzl athletes

8pm-Introductions by AAC and SLCA. Slideshows follow: Steve House, Andrew Burr and Brian Smoot

3pm-midnight-Located in the Log Cabin Hooka Lounge: Highland Games, Open Mike DJ, Poker Championships (this will run all weekend with the champions being announced on Sunday afternoon).

Saturday, October 10th

8-9-Tulie Bakery breakfast sponsored by The North Face

9-5-CLIMBING-Join us for Sessions with the Pros, a fun day at the SLC crags with renowned professional climbers Lynn Hill, Steve House, Cedar Wright, Caroline George, Jasmine Canton, Kate Rutherford, Mikey Shaefer and Jim Donini. The pros will host a handful of eclectic sessions sure to boost your skills, including Sport Climbing for Boulderers, Trad Climbing for Sport Climbers, Bouldering for Weaklings, Ice Climbing for Climbers Who Are Not Old Or Out Of Shape and Donini's Old Man's Guide To Climbing 5.12 (unofficially sponsored by the AARP). There will also be Locals Only Tours led by an all-star cast of SLC underground super locals who know every nook, cranny and crimp in the Wasatch (ever wonder where those secret spots, pimper bouldering circuits, five-star routes and no-star routes are in the canyons? Follow the locs, they know).

4-6 Yoga

5pm-Vendor venue open, Booth Happy hour

5-9-Silent Auction

5-9 AAC Taco Cart Abierto

Black Diamond Party

Live music by Black Diamond's own Use As Is and Salt Lake City's Tolchock Trio.

Sunday, October 11

9-4 AAC's N. Rockies Section sponsored breakfast and Service Project Day with SLCA

7-11 Film Festival and Billiard Championships at Brewvies

Membership

For the past seven years, the Salt Lake Climbers' Alliance has been Northern Utah's leading force in sustaining local climbing resources. To help the SLCA continue and expand its work to promote climbing opportunities, preserve local access and encourage stewardship of the environment, please consider becoming a supporting member.

What has the SLCA done for Salt Lake's climbing community since 2002?

* Served as advocate for local climbers with land managers and other stake holders
* In partnership with the American Safe Climbing Association we have helped replace old, worn-out bolts throughout the Wasatch
* Annual SLCA Days: community-building comps, parties and fundraisers
* Adopt-a-Crag Days:
o American Fork Canyon: Division Wall, the Membrane and the Hell Cave trail and crag improvements
o Little Cottonwood Canyon: trail mapping and plant survey, trash clean-up, bouldering area improvement, bridge to The Great White Icicle, new trail to the Egg and graffiti removal throughout the canyon
o Ferguson Canyon: trail and crag improvement
o Big Cottonwood Canyon: Slips Crag restoration and trail improvement
o Pete's Rock: clean-up and graffiti removal
o Maple Canyon: Pipe Dream cave improvement, bridge to Pipeline Wall
* Seasonal installation of toilets in Joe's Valley

Why is the SLCA pursuing a paid membership program?

* To increase the number and scope of events, projects, re-bolting, communications, networking and long-term planning for trails and other access issues.
* To provide needed resources to address the many land management challenges facing our climbing areas.
* If the Salt Lake Climbers' Alliance is transformed into a group with formal membership, climbers will have a much stronger voice in issues that impact climbing access.

Please consider becoming a member of the Salt Lake Climbers' Alliance today. It only takes a few minutes and you'll become instrumental in supporting climbing access and opportunities in the Salt Lake Valley and beyond.

Annual Membership Fee: $25.00 (The SLCA is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your entire donation is tax deductible.)

Hey maybe instead of doing boulder chalk cleanups every year, we could concentrate our efforts on teaching boulderers not to slather chalk on holds with toothbrushes instead.