tom's blog

MARCH 25th 7-10pm
Free beer, thousands of dollars in door prizes, and great people-what more could you want in a Thursday night? Join us for our most unique event yet as we kick off the Spring season with an awesome party!
Manhattan Plaza Health Club will be CLOSED to Climbing during this time.

Today, the 3rd of October, is EMS' Club Day - 20% of everything in store for members of various outdoor clubs. Just mention the gym that you climb at and you should be eligible. More at http://www.ems.com/shop/index.jsp?categoryId=3815349

The City Climber's Club closed on June 26th for renovations of the building.

At this time they are unsure how long the renovation will last. Check their website at http://www.cityclimbersclub.com for updates.

I've just added Brooklyn Boulders to the gym section of ClimbNYC.com

Slated to open in some form in August, this gym has 18,000 square feet of floor space with top ropes, lead climbing and bouldering. Routes will be up to 40ft and the boulders top out over 17ft.

They're holding "t-nut parties" on Saturdays where anybody can come and visit and land a hand setting t-nuts in exchange for free day passes. More info is at their Facebook group - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=124781575636&ref=ts

Find out more on Brooklyn Boulder's page on ClimbNYC.com or visit their website.

Tuesday, March 10 and Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Films from around the world about mountaineering, climbing, ice climbing, etc.

Location: 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York
Tickets: $21 in advance and $24 at the door

Below is the intro video:

I've made a few changes to the way the site works, the most important of which is disabling anonymous comments. It appeared that in some reviews and comments people were not being honest about who they were and what relationship they had with the gyms they were reviewing, so people are now required to register. People without accounts can still rate gyms, but can't leave reviews.

If you have any thoughts or suggestions, please post a comment here, or send me a message via the contact page.

Manhattan Plaza Health Club are hosting a bouldering competition on the 14th of February. $25 pre-registration, $30 on the day, which includes a T-shirt. Registration from 12.30, competitions 1-4pm. Location: www.mphc.com and there's a flyer.

Katrina from the Cliffs at Valhalla gym just emailed to say that they're having the 4th annual Feats of Strength climbing competition on February 21st.

The adult climbing competition is from 1:30-4:30 with Open Finals at 5:30. There is also a Junior Climbing Competition for youth 15 and under. They anticipate having
over $5000 dollars in prizes and multiple professional-level competitors.

There will be a DJ and party sponsored by Red Bull and Zwack as well.

October 31st 8-10pm

Manhattan Plaza Health Club will be hosting their first Halloween Party and Costume Contest with music, lights & refreshments. There's a prize from EMS for the best costume and a pumpkin carving contest.

My vote goes to anyone that can climb in those boots - http://reospeed.blogspot.com/2007/11/halloween.html

I finally found some time to make this website look a bit better. If you click around different pages you'll see that the header photo changes. I'd love to have some more photos to include up there, so if you have any that you're happy to share, please get in touch - [clickToShowEmail]@climbnyc.com

The photo will be cropped to approx 970 x 200 px, and should have a fairly dark solid color on the top left for the site name to go on top of.