Queer Crush @ Mission Cliffs

🎟️ free for @touchstoneclimbing gym members!
🎫 $20 day pass for non-members (thats a 33% discount on the regular price!)
🧗🏻‍♂️rentals are FREE for QC attendees, so no need to worry if you don’t have climbing shoes or a harness (if you wanna climb ropes!)
🎉this is an all levels meet up, so no matter your experience, you’re welcome to join us!
⏰come early so that you make it to our intro circle and you get to make community with other members

RSVP: https://portal.touchstoneclimbing.com/missioncliffs/programs/queer-crush

NOTE: Mission Cliffs offers bouldering or rope climbing. With bouldering, you climb up to about ~15 feet from the ground, are not secured to a rope, and do not need a partner; it's probably the easiest way for beginners to explore climbing for the first time! With rope climbing...

• You climb in pairs - the climber on the wall & the belayer on the ground ensuring the climber doesn't fall. Belayers need to learn how to belay & pass a test administered by the gym staff for safety reasons!
• At this gym, the climber doesn't need to take a test (the belayer can check safety for both people); however, it's unlikely that for you to find a partner who only ever wants to belay from the ground while you're climbing.
• Therefore, if rope climbing is really important to you (getting that adrenaline rush from going ~60 feet up!), you should plan when you're going to 1) learn to belay and 2) do the belay test with gym staff (which also depends on gym staff availability)
• For many first-time ever learners, learning to belay can take the entirety of the Queer Crush session (and also depends on our ability to have someone who can teach you). Since the gym closes soon after our session, this means that you may not get much time, if any, on the wall!
• At Mission Cliffs, most days before Queer Crush, there is an Intro to Climbing Class that the gym offers. We highly recommend you taking this class, then , time-permitting taking a belay test with gym staff, and then joining our group. This would be the best way to do rope climbing as a beginner with other queer crushers