
Beta Session: Academia Avance
Volunteer your climbing skills and share what you know with a group of students from Academia Avance in Highland Park! Sign up here.
Location: Stronghold Climbing Gym
Volunteer your climbing skills and share what you know with a group of students from Academia Avance in Highland Park! Sign up here.
Location: Stronghold Climbing Gym
Meet new climbing partners, share some snacks/drinks, and climb it out!
Anchor Building Clinic at 6:30PM: Learn the basics of building anchors for outdoor climbing. Limited to 8 spots. Free for Climb the Gap volunteers; $10-15 suggested donation for those that haven’t volunteered yet (Ask for the Venmo at the class). Sign up here!
Location: Stronghold Climbing Gym
We'll be hosting a group of 30 students from Sacred Heart High School in Lincoln Heights. Several of them have climbed before, and we're excited to bring them back in! If you'd like to volunteer to show them the ropes, sign up here.
Location: Stronghold Climbing Gym
Volunteer your climbing skills and share what you know with a group of students from Academia Avance in Highland Park!
Location: Stronghold Climbing Gym
Meet new climbing partners, share some snacks/drinks, and climb it out!
Lead clinic class (limited to 8 spots).
Location: Stronghold Climbing Gym
Volunteer your climbing skills and share what you know with a group of students from Academia Avance in Highland Park!
Location: Stronghold Climbing Gym
Meet new climbing partners, share some snacks/drinks, and climb it out!
Location: Stronghold Climbing Gym
Meet new climbing partners, share some snacks/drinks, and climb it out!
Location: Stronghold Climbing Gym
Volunteer your climbing skills and share what you know with a group of young people from Outward Bound Adventures, based in Pasadena! Then, stick around for our monthly meetup! RSVP to reserve your volunteer spot.
Location: Stronghold Climbing Gym
Volunteer your climbing skills and share what you know with a group of students from Academia Avance in Highland Park! RSVP to reserve your volunteer spot.
Location: Stronghold Climbing Gym
Come and close out the year with us! Bring a dish to share (reminder that several of our members are vegan) - Location is at a private residence, so you’ll be sent the address after you RSVP!
Meet new climbing partners, share some snacks and drinks, and bring games to play as you rest in-between climbs!
Location: Stronghold Climbing Gym
Join us for an outdoor day trip climbing meetup - Subject to change depending on weather. All climbing experience levels welcome. RSVP to let us know you’re coming, what gear you may need, and vote on the location!
Location: TBD
Volunteer your climbing skills and share what you know with a group of high school students from Sacred Heart High School in Lincoln Heights! RSVP to let us know you’re coming!
Location: Stronghold Climbing Gym
Volunteer your climbing skills and share what you know with a group of students from Academia Avance in Highland Park!
Location: Stronghold Climbing Gym
Join us at the American Alpine Club’s fall climbing festival, Highball Craggin’ Classic! We’ll be there at the Friday’s diversity and inclusion conversation hour, and around throughout the weekend. Find out more about the festival here.
Volunteer your climbing skills and share what you know with a group of students from Academia Avance in Highland Park!
Come and see the screening of Rokpunkt, a film about climber Alex Megos, at the Patagonia store in Santa Monica, and say hi to us! Proceeds from beer sales will go to us.
Eat some delicious food, belay, and climb with Black Girls Trekkin’! They’re a group inspiring and empowering black women to spend time outdoors, appreciate nature, and protect it. They hope to build a community that will show the world that women of color are a strong and present force in the outdoors. Check them out!
Volunteer your climbing skills and share what you know with a group of students from Academia Avance in Highland Park!
Volunteer your belaying skills during our Beta Session with Anti-Recidivism Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network, comprehensive services, and opportunities to advocate for policy change. Volunteers will do a safety and climbing demonstration, belay participants, and share love and knowledge of climbing! Please RSVP to let us know you are able to volunteer.
Come meet us, bring snacks, bring friends, make new friends, and maybe climb a little!
Time to break out those onesie pajamas, because it's sleepover time at Stronghold Climbing Gym! Climb the Gap is hosting our first fundraiser, to raise money for scholarships (extended visit passes and summer camp entry) for young people of color who have special interest/talent in climbing. Join us for climbing, food, beer, games, Big Swing!, yoga en español, friends, and more! $30 ENTRANCE, PURCHASE/DONATE HERE.
Volunteer your belaying skills during our Beta Session with a local girls’ volleyball team from Mid-City. Volunteers will do a safety and climbing demonstration, belay participants, and share love and knowledge of climbing! Please RSVP to let us know you are able to volunteer.
Share your love and knowledge of climbing with others! Adelante Youth Alliance provides boys and girls with the tools for academic and personal growth; to challenge them to raise their expectations; promote leadership and encourage them to pursue a post-high school education, so that they may achieve their goals and have a positive impact on their lives and the lives of others. Volunteers will do a safety and climbing demonstration, belay participants, and share love and knowledge of climbing!
Volunteer your belaying skills during our Beta Session with L.A. Rooted, a Womyn of Color and QTIPOC Artivists collective, cultivating intergenerational education, health and resilience to empower underserved POC/QTIPOC youth and communities. Volunteers will do a safety and climbing demonstration, belay participants, and share love and knowledge of climbing! Please RSVP to let us know you are able to volunteer.
Want to strengthen your outdoor climbing skills? Want to to show your non-climbing friends a taste of climbing? Want to climb among the pines? Join us as we climb with the Southern California Mountaineers Association! You have the option of camping or staying at a member's cabin in Big Bear, and joining us for a potluck on Saturday night. Find more details and RSVP here! Space is limited.
Come meet us, bring snacks, bring friends, make new friends, and maybe climb a little!