This Saturday, Dec. 7 will be our December trip, and it’s time for some T-Wall magic! Running alongside the Tennessee River, the Tennessee Wall is some of the best sandstone cragging anywhere in the Southeast. Abundant trad climbs are available in every grade from 5.7 on up. The T-Wall is [...]
The location for our November trip has been changed from Little River Canyon to Castle Rock, TN. Castle Rock has a better selection of moderates available and should make the trip accessible to more of our members. Although a few trad lines exist, Castle Rock is predominately sport climbing on [...]
Join us on Thursday, November 7, 7:00pm at the Courtside Grille for our monthly meeting. Our presenter for this month will be Gene Whitehead. Gene is legally blind and will be speaking about his climbing history and the role climbing has played in his adjusting to vision loss. We will [...]
Join us this Saturday, October 5 for our trip to Sand Rock, AL. The Cherokee Rock Village park is home to an abundance of single-pitch sandstone climbs of varying types and difficulties. Sport, trad and bouldering are all there for the taking. We’ll be leaving the Marietta park and ride [...]
Join us next week on Thursday, October 3, 7:00pm at the Concourse Athletic Club for the next meeting of the Atlanta Climbing Club. The speaker will be our own Lucius Williams IV. He’ll be showing his new climbing film, Ikigai: Climb Hard, discussing the film making process and more. We’ll [...]
Join us next Saturday, September 21 at Jamestown, AL for our annual trail day. In conjunction with the Southeastern Climbers Coalition, we’ll be working to beat back the weeds and prepare the trails at Jamestown for cooler fall weather. We plan to get an early start at 8:00am Eastern time, [...]
Thanks to everyone for making our trip to Linville Gorge such a success. I had a great time seeing you all. I have posted a collection of photos from the trip to the ACC Facebook page. You don’t need to be on Facebook to view the photos. Just click the [...]
On September 7-8 we’re headed to Linville Gorge in North Carolina for our fall trip. Located in the Pisgah National Forest northwest of Morganton, NC, the gorge provides unspoiled views of old-growth forest. Climbing on quartzite cliffs is available in a wide range of difficulties and differing levels of remoteness [...]
The ACC’s summer hiatus is almost over! We have a busy September planned, and hope you can join us as we kick things off with our September meeting. On Thursday, Sep. 5 starting at 7:00pm we’ll be back at the Courtside Grille for our monthly meeting. Our speaker will be [...]
The club trip this Saturday, June 15 will be to Sunset Park. Stretching along the western face of Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga is Sunset Park, home of some of Tennessee’s finest single-pitch trad climbing. Because it’s a west-facing crag, Sunset is a nice destination in the summer months; it stays [...]