Spire Climbing Center Grand re-Opening!
We completed the remodel of Spire Climbing Center in Bozeman this fall. We had a grand reopening of the gym complete with a ribbon-cutting from 30 feet in the air! It was great for me to be a part of this remodel project, and it feels good to see the gym in all its glory and people having fun climbing on it!
Here are some pictures I took throughout the summer as we made progress on the gym.
Jeff Ho cutting the ribbon on the Grand Reopening night with a sweet dyno from the roof.
Climbers on the new wall on opening night! (props to the route setters)
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Fall time in the mountains of Montana
Bridget and I tried finding some ice a few weekends ago to climb. We wanted to go rock climbing but the weather had other plans as it snowed around 20 inches. We basicly stumbled over slick, snow covered rock looking for ice. We found a little ice to climb and a loose gully that was around M4 (short section). We ended the weekend by bouldering on the perfect granite boulders in the Rock Creek Drainage.
Truck camping breakfast of champions
The best part was bouldering in the sun with crisp temps.
Bridget sending a John Gill problem near the road
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Good temps
good food and fun crowd
Rusty Willis sending a cobble arete
Keeping warm in the Sportiva booth. Photo by Thomas Kingsbury
Cheers, Loren