Climbing Club

Thanks to generous funding from the National Recreation Foundation, the Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County, and other funders, we're happy to announce we'll be offering our Climbing Club program to local adolescents for free each spring and fall. This program uses climbing to help adolescents develop physical skills, build emotional resiliency, and create meaningful relationships.

Now enrolling climbers for our next session, which starts March 17. You can find more details on the program and the link to our application below!

More program information

Climbing Club is open to adolescents and young adults ages 12-17. The program consists of five Wednesday evening sessions and one weekend trip of outdoor climbing and bouldering. Three of the Wednesday evening sessions take place at Bradford Woods, where participants will have the opportunity to climb our Alpine Tower and Climbing Tower. Two of the Wednesday evening sessions take place at EPIC Climbing and Fitness, where participants will have the opportunity to climb indoors and learn about bouldering. The program ends after the culminating weekend climbing experience. In addition to learning about outdoor & indoor rock climbing and bouldering, participants will be exposed to many other valuable skills and knowledge sets, such as Leave No Trace outdoor ethics, how to tie knots, indoor climbing ethics, and climbing lingo.

This program is completely free to participants; including all associated gear rental expenses, travel expenses, and food/lodging during the weekend climbing trip.

If you're interested in this program, please contact us for more information – including available program dates and registration.

How to Enroll

Please follow the link below to apply for our Spring 2021 Session of Climbing Club and if you have any additional questions about the program, please contact Tommy Gardner at tggardne@indiana.edu.

Click here to apply!