Welcome to Geeks Love Climbing!

Climbing for geeks by geeks, because geeks love climbing. Shamelessly stolen from inspired by http://geekslovebowling.com

A few folks have mentioned wanting to get a group together to go rock climbing while at conferences. Pack your climbing shoes and let's do it!

The Conferences

• SXSW2010 (Just getting started...)
• SXSW2009 (Please feel free to vote for times under The Voting if you are interested in going.)
• ...

The Climbers

• Mark Trammell (founder of Geeks Love Climbing)
• Tantek Çelik (made an offhand joke to Mark, and look what happened.)
• Dan Rubin (climbed a tree when I was 10, and a rope when I was 16)
• Juliette Melton (just found the climbing shoes - w00t!)
• Erica Douglass (I can pack all my climbing gear)
• Michael Lehmkuhl (have pity on me - I come from a flat state)
• Dane Petersen (used to climb twice a week at Smith Rock... used to...)
• Noelle Murata (refuses to be outdone, having missed the Apt Bouldering)
• Colin Surprenant (active in the north east - from Montreal area, Adirondacks to the Gunks)
• Kevin Rose (I own buildering.com, no joke, click the ads)
• Daniel Burka (I'm can climb the routes Kevin talks about climbing)
• Veronica Belmont (It's been a while, I need peer pressure)
• Laura Fitton (that nut from Twitter [@pistachio] used to, used to...) availability a little up in the air, i'll come when a group is going if i can
• Aubrey Sabala (I'm packing my climbing gear and dental floss. Wholly unrelated, but true.)
• Ryan King (packing climbing gear and dental floss. Totally related.)
• Jake Ingman (my brother climbed el cap twice. I have climbed it zero.)
• Thomas Crenshaw (indoor climber from VA/DC/MD area)
• Ben Cote (climbs stuff)
• Adina Levin (learned at Planet Granite in Belmont)
• tyler hilker (i'm now the noob i always made fun of)
• Stephanie Sullivan (haven't done this in years, but loved it before)
• Lisa Brewster (started climbing at SXSW, ended up being lots easier to try than I thought it would be)
• Elizabeth Leddy (from the window to the wall...)
• Alex Kawas (founding member of NinjaCamp)
• Brynn Evans (total n00b)
• Chris Hutchins (unemployed in SF = lots of time to climb)
• Lynn LaVallee (i hope my chalk is still chalky)
• Laura Gluhanich (Burka? Have you even climbed this year?)
• Natalie Villalobos (I forgot my shoes at home. Platforms work, yes?)
• Chad Catacchio (I own kevinroseownsbuildering.com, joke, no ads to click)
• michael j lambie (casual climber in l.a. j-tree, june lake & bishop trips mostly)
• Micah Saul (my calluses are pretty much completely gone... this'll be painful)
• Rob Goodlatte (damn kids these days...)
• Josh Smith (blablabla non-seqitur-involving-tacos blablabla etc.)

The Sponsors

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The Successful Climbs

Past geeks love climbing sessions:

• SXSW2008
• 3/26-3/28 San Diego: W3C CSS Working Group meeting (should move this to its own past archive page and leave a link in place)
  • 3/27
    • Solid Rock in San Diego
      • Map: http://maps.google.com/?q=2074%20Hancock%20Street%20San%20Diego%2C%20Ca%2092110&t=h&utm_campaign=en_US&utm_medium=ha&utm_source=en_US-ha-na-us-gns-ssm&utm_term=add
        • Tip: if you are coming from the south or the east, be careful that hancock has some weird one way issues for half the time
      • Price: http://www.solidrockgym.com/rates.html
      • Fun: Oh my god!!!! aka orgasmic
    • 7pm at Solid Rock
      • +1 Tantek
      • +1 Lisa
      • +1 Liz
      • +1 Alex
      • +1 Brynn
    • dinner afterwards nearby in old town and hillcrest (suggest something!)
      • +1 Tantek
      • +1 Lisa (open to anything, vegan option + non-obnoxious parking gets bonus points)
      • +1 Liz (ortegas has sweet margaritas, bamboo lounge has yummy fusion but takes forever, and my favorite place for old speckled hen on tap, shakespeares pub... )
      • Although I won't be joining you for climbing, I'd love to be in on dinner/drink plans. As far as Hillcrest/Mission Hills/Old Town goes, I'd recommend Mamá Testa for Mexican (best tacos in town, bar none). Seconded Shakespeare & Bamboo Lounge as nice spots--Shakespeare for dinner & afterwards, Bamboo Lounge to chill post dinner but I wouldn't bother eating there. Bamboo Lounge is on the same block as Mamá Testa; could be a nice combo. -- Edward O'Connor
      • +1 Alex (Ted knows his eats.)
      • +1 Brynn (sad to say that after 1.5 years living in SD, I have no idea where to suggest...)
• 2008-05-07 6pm New Zealand (should move this to its own past archive page and leave a link in place)

  Webstock Workshop, Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand

  Time

  6pm, 7 May 2008

   

  Place

  Fergs http://www.zoomin.co.nz/map/nz/wellington/wellington+wharf/queens+wharf/6/-fergs+kayaks+wellington/

   

  Climbers

  • Ben Nolan (Perpetrator of the monkey climb)
  • Cj Wells (I dated a climber once)
  • Hayden Smith (Cause ladders are for lazy shits)
  • Ingo Schommer (Likes the handhold color schemes, but doesn't climb by them)
  • Tantek Çelik

   

  Entourage

  • Sue Tyler (I might photograph climbing, but I do not have a climbing spirit)

The Photos

• http://flickr.com/photos/tags/geeksloveclimbing

The Videos

• See SXSW2008 videos.