by Teton Climbers’ Coalition | May 6, 2021 | Blog
Thanks to the many, many advocates in our community, we delivered 80 letters of support for a bigger climbing gym to our elected officials. To everyone who wrote in, thanks for your support! You may have seen this week’s article about the retention of a climbing wall...
by Teton Climbers’ Coalition | May 6, 2021 | Blog
The very first recommendation the TCC made to Parks and Rec regarding the community climbing gym was to retain an independent climbing gym consultant as early in the gym’s development as possible. We’re pleased to announce that this week, our elected officials...
by Teton Climbers’ Coalition | Mar 23, 2021 | Blog
Over three months this winter, The TCC held three episodes of its Winter Speaker Series, which was designed to provide the Teton climbing community a chance to “gather” in the midst of the pandemic. On January 21, Carlos Carsolio, the first North American to climb all...
by Teton Climbers’ Coalition | Mar 22, 2021 | Blog
Dear Teton Climber, In the November 2019 election, Teton County voters approved $22,000,000, via the SPET initiative’s Proposition #9, for an expansion of the Teton County/Jackson Recreation Center. This expansion includes a community climbing gym. Town and county...
by Teton Climbers’ Coalition | Mar 2, 2021 | Blog
Arguably no wall in the world commands the same sort of respect from alpinists as the north face of the Eiger. Arguably no woman in the world is as strong a free climber as Austrian Babsi Zangerl. On Thursday, March 11, Babsi and her partner, Italian climber Jacopo...
by Teton Climbers’ Coalition | Jan 31, 2021 | Blog
In 1977, George Lowe and Michael Kennedy made the first ascent of one of the great lines in world mountaineering, Alaska’s Infinite Spur, in an eleven-day odyssey that stretched the boundaries of alpine climbing possibility. Forty-two years later, second-generation...
