Join PATC-MS for a day of climbing at Sugarloaf.
This event will be limited to PATC-MS members and capped at 16 climbers. It is open to all levels, but you need to know how to belay.
Please bring a harness, helmet, and belay device.
Please cancel your registration if you are no longer able to attend so someone can have your spot. If you no show once, you will get an email from the Chair. If you no show twice, you will not be allowed to sign up for another event for 3 months. If you continue to no show, your membership will be cancelled and refunded.
Please note that this is not a guided event and none of our trip leaders are professional guides. You will be climbing on ropes set up by members of the club who are hobby climbers and not professionals. Climbing is an inherently dangerous sport and you do so at your own risk. You are responsible for yourself and your own safety at all times.
Trip Organizer: Haley Behre (haleybehre at gmail dot com)
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July 28, 2024
8:00 am - 3:30 pm
Venue: Sugarloaf
Venue Website: https://sugarloafmd.com
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Description:
Sugarloaf Mountain is a small 1,200ft monadnock 20 miles south of Frederick, MD. Sugarloaf offers local climbers some of the closest traditional lead climbing to the Washington Metro Area. It is also notable for some excellent top-rope routes, as well as numerous boulder problems scattered throughout the forest.
The private Stronghold Foundation owns the land and welcomes many hikers and climbers each year. Please bring $5 cash to donate at the entrance (encouraged but not required). Sugarloaf is also a trash free park, so pack it in pack it out. There are port-a-potties at the West parking lot.
The most popular climbing areas – Middle Earth and Boy Scout Ledges – are a short walk from the West View Parking lot
To reach Sugarloaf, follow I270 to the Hyattstown exit, follow Route 109 to Comus, then right on Comus Road to the Sugarloaf Mountain entrance.