Breaks Interstate Park, The Access Fund, and CACC worked together to provide $10,000 of funding to bring in professional trail crews to provide badly needed improvements to the River Trail.  This trail provides hikers and climbers access to the river and new crags in the lower gorge.  

The CACC helped the Breaks Interstate Park raise $2000 for new hardware to help develop new routes throughout the park.  To date the fundraiser has helped provide hardware for over 50 new routes at the park, especially at the new Lower Lodges crag.  This fundraiser is ongoing and can be contributed here:https://www.gofundme.com/f/breaks-climbing-development-fund

CACC hosted its first annual Guest River Climbing festival.  With over 30 volunteers we were able to pull out over 4 trucks worth of trash from the Guest River Gorge followed by some excellent climbing on premier sandstone.  Later that night the CACC hosted a showing of Reel Rock 14 in the Norton City Farmer's Market behind Sugar Hill Cidery.  The event was a huge success and is planned again for November 7, 2020.  

News of another access victory in our region.

Coverage from our annual Stewardship Event, which also included a ceremonial opening of the AVP Boulders.

We are incredibly proud of the work our team has accomplished. We have been recognized by the Access Fund as one of 2017s Outstanding Climbing Advocates for the successful purchase of the AVP Boulders at Grayson Highlands and for success in preserving and protecting climbing areas across Central Appalachia. We couldn't be more honored and look forward to growing, taking on new projects, and protecting the places we love to visit and play.

With help from the Access Fund, we signed a purchase agreement for the AVP Boulders in Grayson Highlands State Park in September 2017 (Learn More). Over the next three months, we raised over $14,000, which fully funded the purchase - we own it!

Official announcement from the Access Fund on the huge victory of opening an interstate park to rock climbing. 

A personal reflection by Kylie Schmidt, CACC Board Member, on opening the Breaks to climbing. 

Developed approaches to new the crag and cleaned some freshly bolted routes.

With an all-star crew of dedicated, motivated volunteers we were able to greatly improve the AVP Boulders access trail with a small foot bridge and stone reinforcement, repair and improve landings that had started to erode at AVP, and add official climber access signage (all despite some early rain showers). Day two we improved the access trail for the Outlaw Boulders, removed micro trash and scrubbed off tickmarks from all of the Picnic Area Boulders. The event and raffle raised over $350 for the CACC! 

The Access Fund Sustainable Climbing Workshop will provided an opportunity to meet and connect as a broad group of climbing stakeholders, explore the upsides and challenges of managing climbing, and take a deeper dive into topics such as climbing's economic benefits, wildlife and cliff ecology, fixed anchor replacement, stewardship, trails, and more. 

The Trail Day at Flag Rock was a great success. Check out the event photos and see what all we accomplished!