Brooklyn Boulders On Sale!

No - not the actual climbing gym.... Brooklyn Boulders is having a winter membership sale, which begins on Black Friday(that's the day after Thanksgiving for those who haven't been exposed to mass commercialism all their life; hey - there might be one or two!).

I got an email from someone there via BKB's Facebook Page, and it read as follow:

Black Friday ONLY, NOV 26, the first 25 people to get to BKB can climb all winter for only $99. The catch is that we open @ 7AM, so you'll have to be waiting outside at like 6:45, but we'll have coffee and donuts for ya!

Cyber Monday, Nov, 29, our Winter Pass goes on sale to the general public... Unlimited climbing from the winter solstice (December 21) to the Vernal Equinox (March 20) for only $175. Purchase by November 30th and we'll let you start climbing immediately (that's 3 bonus weeks of climbing for FREE)!

Spread the word, 116 days of climbing for as low as $99... giving the gift of climbing has never been more affordable!

Gobble Gobble!

I have been to the climbing gym(although only once, but hey - when you live on the Mohonk Preserve, why would you travel to Brooklyn to climb indoors???) and I can say that I was quite impressed. The routesetters really are very good, and the plastic pieces were placed adeptly. I really DID feel like I was making moves I would do in real life(ummm...outside). Well done!

ClimbAddict Has a Website - FINALLY!

Though we have had our shops through CafePress and Zazzle for several years, and this blog...and our presence on Twitter.... an actual website has alluded us all this time. I HAD a domain name - ClimbAddictDesigns.com. I just could NOT figure out how to build a site, nor could I afford to pay someone to do it for me!

Until last week, that is. While checking out a friend's site for Sierra Salve a beeswax-based balm for climbers tenderized tips, I noticed they used a free website builder, from Weebly.com. Though the Sierra Salve site looked great, I figured there had to be a catch. After all - nobody gives something away for free.

Long story short, Weebly does! Though for a small fee, you can have more, the free sites are totally good enough for most uses. And so - I got

Yay for ClimbAddict!

SO - please click over
and take a look for yourself. If oyu have suggestions, feedback or just want to vent about some frustration you may have....you can use the contact form on the site to do it!

And if you didn't already catch the site from all the clickable links in this post - HER is the link to the site: http://www.climbaddictdesigns.com

Climbs Well With Others - I SWEAR!

Happiegrrrl Climbing has published a new post. It begins:

A lot of people who live very near the Shawangunk ridge, who say they used to be obsessed with climbing, tell me they moved here from New York City or elsewhere specifically to allow for more climbing days, but once they had been here a while, they came to the realization that they were actually getting out less! Funny, how what had been an every weekend dedication for those people had morphed into the occasional day out or even, for some, a complete hiatus in climbing.

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