Climbingsource.com - About Us

Roots - The birth of an idea

We are a group of climbers from around the country who are passionate about climbing as a sport, activity, and lifestyle. Sprouting from a "Wouldn't it be cool if...." conversation after a day of climbing at Rock State Park, MD. we decided that as a community, we needed a unifying resource. Thus, the idea for a web-site with weather, directions, beta, hazards, camping and resources relating to the climbing areas of the U.S. all in one place.

How we keep Climbingsource.com up

It sucks when your favorite site is down for a day or more importantly down forever. We've all had it happen! We have in place four symbiotic relationships to keep Climbingsource.com up and growing. They are listed below:

1. Visit the site - This ones easy! The more demand there is for this site the more desire there will be to advertise. Also the more we can grow.

a. Tell a friend, tell two friends
b. Check the weather with us
c. Click on our sponsors through Climbingsource.com
d. Use the site as much as you can; Enjoy!

2. Donations - Your generous contributions can be made by check to:

3. Advertising Space - We sell ad space to climbing related companies. Click on their banners on the web-site and check out what they have to offer. Or advertise with us. Click Here

4. Selling Guidebooks - Adventuroustraveler.com has generously offered to give us a percentage on guidebook sales made linking from this web-site, Climbingsource.com. Help us when purchasing guidebooks, do it by linking through our web-site, Climbingsource.com via ad banners OR the "Order Guidebook" buttons like the one below found on all Local Beta State pages. Everyone benefits.

5. Robbing Banks (We'll only resort to this if the we don't get help from #1 - #4)*

Climbingsource.com is a team effort - Get on our team

        We are not some mega-corporation hell bent on world domination. We are a group of climbers who have volunteered countless hours of time and expertise to share this resource with the climbing community. We are dedicated to up keep and expansion of this resource. Email us to see how you can contribute to the team. Development@climbingsource.com

Special Thanks to:
(without these guys this never would have gotten off the ground)

Zanedogg Productions for the Organic Web-Site Design, HTML, Javascript, Graphic Arts and Internet Consulting. www.zanedogg.net Hamster Scripting for the behind the scenes programming in Perl and C++

The Weather Channel for their great local "weather magnets." www.weather.com

Map Graphics for the state flags and state maps. www.graphicmaps.com

And the many people who have contributed to this project with your time, information, energy and love.

* Climbingsource.com and its affiliates do not endorse stealing or violence in any form, we don't condone robbing banks either, even to keep a web-site up and running.