I have a couple pairs of size 12 to send. What are you using to belay? Want an ATC?

This is gonna sound weird, but a while back I lost one of my shoes. Obviously had to buy a new pair, but now I have the one shoe just floating around. Do you want just the right shoe from a pair of 5.10 Coyotes?

Do you still need more stuff? I have some shoes and an old grigri.

Do you still need more stuff? I have some shoes and an old grigri.

Two pair of shoes (12s maybe) and a chalk bag arrived today from Plainfield Indiana - big thanks!!!

Yep, they are 12s. Any time--thanks to you for helping out your community.

3 pairs of shoes on the way. Keep up the good work!

excellent job Chris, glad my box of shoes that were sitting in the room-o-gear have a new home, at least one pair is good to go for a kid, the others are kinda big but they'll work for someone. BTW- I think just about all kids would enjoy climbing(even the slightly obese 50%) and its a shame that every city doesnt have a place to do this. How did you guys in Crooksville OH. get this going anyways?

Hey Chris I'm gonna try to stop by sometime soon. I'll have to give you a shout when I get time! Just got a new job so maybe eventually I'll have some extra gear to donate. BUMP for the cause!

I'm on the Village Council here (been on for over 20 years now)in our small town. Back in 97 we had a very progressive mayor and council and a government program called Wellness Grants existed. Being a climber at that time I approached village government and we were fortunate enough to get one of the grants. There were several adult climbers here at the time and we (along with the village engineer) put together a plan that allowed us to build about a third of the wall you see today - we climbers did all the construction work and all the holds we used were holds I already owned from my outdoor climbing wall I had at my house. A few years later we got another grant and built more wall and bought more holds and harnesses. A few more years and one more grant and we built the arch portion you see in the pictures along with more holds. Our community bank donated money for more harnesses last year and we solicited outside businesses for new ropes last year. So practically all the money given us went to materials and almost no labor charges. I furnish all the chalk used and we have several regular adult volunteers that are there every week. What usually happens is we adults belay the small kids the first couple hours - than after the kids leave, we belayers climb for a while. It's all run by volunteers so no expense there either. We were fortunate as a village to have an old high school gymnasium already as a recreation center with enough ceiling height to allow a nice climbing wall to be built. It's a multi purpose rec center where we offer much more than just climbing and have to share time etc with everything else that goes on. We are blessed to have this in a town our size - roughly 2500 people. I think this can be done in other towns given the right circumstances and a group of volunteers willing to do all the work of running it.

3 pairs of shoes on the way. Keep up the good work!