So didn’t make it out dry tooling on the summit on Sunday just gone, but after cowering over the googlemapbook decided to go check out the cliffs up the goat river that Blaine W spied earlier last year. Decided to throw the bike in the back of the truck – not much snow left in Creston [...]

Make sure you attend the Kootenay Climbing Association’s AGM and fundraiser on February 21st. They need your support to make a climbing gym happen in Nelson. They have over $1,000 worth of gear donated by local businesses for the silent auction and David Lussier will be showing some awesome photos from his recent trip to [...]

Classic! How many of us fall into the “Gotta Get the Gear!” category? The hilarious show Portlandia nails it with this sketch.  

This trip report is compliments of Creston climber Khaled: After a late start sat morn got over the hump to nelson for 10am, 20txt messages later hit the right spot -a little before the last bridge crossing before the slocan turnoff. Turn down to the river, cross the tracks and park in the pull in [...]

This trip report is compliments of Creston climber Khaled: So managed to get up to the bull river last sat’day. I stayed in cranbrook and nik legged it over from c’gar. Started off to be a nice crisp bluebird day around -12 leaving town. Following directions from the waterfall ice book, we got to bull [...]

CASBC celebrated a small victory in November when the Nature Conservancy of Canada concluded that, given their insurance requirements, our organization could apply for the standard access permit which will allow vehicle access from July to September, on weekends only, to the Darkwoods area. This includes access to Topaz Tower and other potential big-wall climbing [...]

One of the mandates of The Association of West Kootenay Rock Climbers is to encourage new outdoor routing in the Kootenay region. And in order to see that happen we are now offering reimbursement funds for climbers who developed new routes during 2012. To be eligible for application, individuals must first be members of CASBC, which [...]

On Friday, November 1st, 2012, Dave Lussier and Vince Hempsall (both founding members of The Association of West Kootenay Rock Climbers) began the process of upgrading the anchors of 15 routes at Kinnaird Bluffs in Castlegar. The project was the brain-child of TAWKROC’s board of directors and was made possible thanks to the generosity of [...]

 The Association of West Kootenay Rock Climbers has finalized an historic agreement with the Climbers’ Access Society of BC. The two organizations have inked a deal that sees TAWKROC (an unincorporated assocation based in Nelson) become a Chapter of CASBC (an incorporated society based in Vancouver). This marks the first time an external organization has [...]

This trip report was written by JT Croston who was recently in Oregon: Are you looking for ideas on where to take your fall or spring climbing trip. Well –  If you love 30 m splitter hand cracks, overhanging sport routes with huecos and crimpers, or multi-pitch trad lines up massive corner systems, mixed up [...]

There have been a few developments up at Woodbury lately. First of all, the access has changed since the West Kootenay Rock Guide was published due to shifting logging roads. It is still relatively easy to find the crag as you can spot it from the road but here is an updated access description: Drive [...]