Last week the Access Fund announced a partnership with the Carolina Climbers Coalition to purchase the Rumbling Bald West Side Boulders in North Carolina. The Access Fund is providing a loan of $72,000 to finance 90% of the price of the 6.12-acre bouldering area, keeping the boulders from being closed to climbers and developed.
This is just another great example of the wonderful work that the Access Fund does to keep climbing areas open so that the 1.6-million climbers in the United States can continue having fun on the rocks. What's amazing is that the Access Fund does all this great work for us climbers, yet less than 1% of American climbers are members. That means 99% of the nation's climbers are taking a free ride.
This year the Access Fund is offering the best stocking stuffer for every climber on your list. For various donations, your climber gets a one-year Access Fund membership along with lots of booty from corporate sponsors including prAna, Clif Bar, Globe Pequot Press, Omega Pacific, and Rock & Ice. Every gift purchase keeps our precious climbing areas open with 83 cents for every dollar donated to the Access Fund going to fulfill their mission. That's a pretty good deal.
If you're part of that 99% of climbers taking a free ride, pony up a few bucks for Christmas. Who knows, the next climbing area the Access Fund helps save may be in your backyard.
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