671 Bolts

77 at Avalon
268 in Boulder Canyon
110 at Ironsides (Allenspark)
78 in Clear Creek
2 in Eldorado Canyon State Park
181 in Estes Park
18 North Table Mountain

Anchor Replacement Volunteers rebolting Strange Science and other favorites at Avalon.
Photo by Zach Joing

At the BCC we like hitting our goals. But, this time we have outdone ourselves; our success means we need a reinfusion of supplies and stoke to keep the momentum going.

We like to deliver. After we replaced 500+ bolts in 2021, we thought, “We can do 600 in 2022.” Well that was an underestimate. We have replaced over 600 bolts and we still have 2 months left in the rebolting season! We are blown away and now we have a bit of a problem: We are going to need to buy some more bolts to keep the good work happening.

So far this year we have replaced bolts in Boulder Canyon: Avalon, Bowling Alley, Upper Animal World, Sport Park; Clear Creek Canyon: Primo Wall, Upper Capitalist Crag; Eldorado Canyon State Park: Redgarden; Ironsides; and Estes Park: Needle, Thumb and Jurassic Park. Some of your favorite climbs received special care from our rebolting volunteers: Strange Science at Avalon, Animation and Animal Magnetism at Animal World (both in Boulder Canyon), Quartz Sports (Clear Creek), and Edge of Time at Jurassic Park (Estes Park Valley).

Not to be outshined, BCC's trail crew spent 11 weeks working in Boulder Canyon at Avalon and Upper Dream Canyon this season. BCC continued constructing new trail and belay areas at the Middle Tier in Avalon and finished off the work in Boulder Canyon by constructing their most impressive stone structure to date at Upper Dream Canyon. The new approach to the Oceanic Wall at Upper Dream Canyon trail is the culmination of 4 years of work performed by BCC. In total, 2,384 trail crew staff hours and 603 volunteer hours went into building this trail. If you have not been down there yet to check it out, we hope you get out there soon! While you are at it check out the finished trail up at Castle Rock Overlook (the trail you would take to Mountain Rose and Frisky Cliff).

😍 Quite the staircase at Upper Dream Canyon! After 4-Years of work by the trail crew and volunteers the trail is done.

BCC's trail crew is now working in the South Platte until the end of September, finishing the Cynical Pinnacle reroute at Cathedral Spires before heading to Staunton State Park to do some much-needed trail and belay pad construction at the Dungeon. Our crew will then finish off the 2022 trail season with some work above Dinosaur Rock on the Mallory Cave Trail in the Flatirons.

On the wag bag front, we have been distributing wag bags like crazy, and put in an additional wag bag dispenser at Upper Dream Canyon. If your friends still don’t know what a wag bag is, we made a super fun educational video.

Our Advocacy and DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) Committees are also thriving. Our DEI Committee supports affinity groups by partnering on stewardship projects. Most recently we partnered with Cruxing in Color on a stewardship day at the Classroom in Staunton. The DEI committee is also implementing best practices in recruitment, and fostering staff and board education. Our Advocacy Committee has dedicated hundreds of hours to weighing in on topics that will affect local climbers and being the voice in the room when decisions are being made.

Alright, so here is where we need your help: We need to buy more bolts and keep the trail crew rolling. LOCAL CRAGS AIN’T FREE and this campaign is critical for raising the funds to get us through the rest of the stewardship season.

We already have several excited folks come forward to support the rebolting and Upper Dream projects. Will you join them?

Be stewardly and get ready to send by supporting the BCC.