Climbing group buys Bolton land
By Matt Crawford
Burlington Free Press

Vermonters Climb a Virtual Everest for Access
By Nicole Ballinger
She Sends

Lower West Bolton Donated to CRAG-VT
By Berne Broudy
Vermont Sports Today

Current Project

• Stewardship and major repairs to the Bolton Quarry driveway, which provides access to three popular crags in the Bolton area. Read more...

Ongoing Work

• Serving as a liaison between the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources and the climbing community to ensure that climbing activities on state lands are done in a responsible fashion consistent with the states environmental and recreation management plans.

• Assisting the Vermont Nongame and Natural Heritage Program in their ongoing efforts to protect the threatened and endangered species that thrive on and around our state's cliffs and climbing areas.

• Building and strengthening our climbing community; encouraging climbers to enjoy and protect our states fantastic climbing resources.

• Continuing to work with the state on Lake Willoughby Management Plan and Smugglers Notch Projects.

Accomplishments

• Quarry Driveway Rebuilding Campaign (completed in August 2012)

• Carcass Crag conserved (completed in 2010)

• Established permanent protections on Lower West and Upper West Bolton Cliffs through a recreation and conservation easement donation to the Vermont Land Trust (2010)

• Upper West Bolton conserved (completed in 2009)

• Secured permanent access for rock climbing at the 82 Crag through our partnership with the Vermont Land Trust (2008)

• Bolton Quarry Project - completed December 20, 2004

• March 27, 2004 Everest Challenge: CRAG-VT hosts its first climbation. More than 70 climbers ascended a group total of 29,035 ft—the height of Mt. Everest—at Petra Cliffs and raised more than $8,500 towards the Quarry Project!

• June 28th, 2003 Lower West Celebration Day: With the large number of motivated participants, we were able to construct rock bars to stabilize existing trails, brush out areas that need to revegetate, and construct a new trail to the top of the cliff (at the Harvest Moon end). A new sign was also installed which will soon contain information about the cliff and CRAG-VT.

• Lower West Bolton Donation - completed May 21, 2003, grand opening and trail day June 28th

• Secured permission to climb at Upper West

• Provided input on Management Plan for Lake Willoughby Forest

• Provided input on the Smugglers Notch Management Plan