This First Wednesday is an informal club meetup for members only. There is no RSVP for this event. Please set up a top rope if you are able. Bring your climbing shoes, harness, and helmet for an evening of climbing at Carderock. Please wear your red PATC shirt if you have it, or any red (more…)
Practicing physician Dr Christopher Van Tilburg will present on risk management in mountain sports and how to mitigate common medical issues such as hypothermia, frostbite and heat illness. Dr. Van Tilburg is an emergency medicine physician, mountain rescue doctor with the Hood River Crag Rats, Chair of the Medical Committee of the Mountain Rescue Association, (more…)
Imagine being within striking distance of your lifelong dream, only to reach a decision point in which continuing on puts others in danger yet turning back means never fulfilling your dream. How would you respond? AMGA climbing guide, Hall of Fame field hockey coach, and Everest mountaineer Anne Parmenter will draw from her personal experiences (more…)
Retired military officer, endurance athlete, and high altitude mountaineer Dave Ashley will discuss how to build the strength and endurance necessary for monumental climbing efforts and what it takes to train for the biggest peaks in the world. In addition to climbing the Seven Summits, Dave has climbed multiple 5000+m peaks, holds the Guinness World (more…)
Unsure how to improve your climbing fitness? Co-Founder and Evoke Endurance Coach Mark Postle will talk about the training methodology he uses to prepare athletes for peaks from Mt. Baker to Mt. Everest, including how to avoid common training mistakes for climbers at every level of fitness and experience. Participants are encouraged to come prepared (more…)
Join PATC-MS for a day of climbing at Wolf Rock. Wolf Rock is a quartzite crag sliced by fissure caves in Catoctin Mountain National Park, near Thurmont, Maryland. Wolf Rock previously required a permit to climb (no longer the case), so it’s a lesser used crag. It is known for being slabby with large vertical (more…)
Join PATC-MS for two days of sport climbing in West Virginia. We will explore Reeds Creek and/or Smoke Hole Canyon, two areas with an abundance of moderately graded sport routes on limestone cliffs. On Saturday we will be climbing at Reeds Creek, and on Sunday will head into Smoke Hole Canyon. This is a PATC-MS (more…)
Join PATC-MS for a weekend of sport climbing at Smoke Hole Canyon! This is a PATC-MS members only trip. This is not an instructional clinic/event, and participants are expected to be familiar with lead/sport climbing and how to set / clean anchors. In addition to any camping and food/water supplies for the weekend, climbers should (more…)
This trip will be visiting Balcony and Balcony Jr as the other climbing areas are closed at present to protect nesting peregrine falcon. Info on routes for these crags is on Mountain Project. Parking is either in the Lower Town part of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park or at the main Visitor Center entrance off Rt. 340 one (more…)