Doing Good In Your Backyard: Ladies Climbing Coalition

Up next in our Doing Good In Your Backyard blog series, where we highlight Local Climbing Organizations (LCOs), we're featuring a community that's all about uplifting and empowering women and non-binary climbers: Ladies Climbing Coalition (LCC). If you've ever felt intimidated walking into a gym full of muscle-shirt dudes, or wished you had a crew to crush with outside, this climbing community might be exactly what you've been looking for.

Who Is The Ladies Climbing Coalition?

The Ladies Climbing Coalition is a non-profit organization with a mission to make climbing more accessible, build a supportive community, and help women and non-binary climbers grow their skills. Whether you're new to climbing or been climbing for quite a while, LCC provides a space to connect, learn, and push each other towards your goals.

What They Do

Meetups:

It's what LCC is best known for. Their local chapters organize meet-ups at climbing gyms and local crags to offer space to build community, learn climbing basics, and just have a good time climbing together. It's a great way to get involved. You can check to see if there is a chapter in your city here.

Classes and Clinics:

Getting into climbing can be challenging and overwhelming. There's climbing partners to find, gear to figure out, technique to learn, and safety to consider. LCC offers online workshops, in-person clinics to provide you with all the necessary climbing information. They offer a downloadable Gym to Crag booklet to help you get familiar with the different climbing terms to the different types of climbing. If you're on the more seasoned climber side, they even offer route setting clinics.

Trips:

Pack your bags and hit the road with the LCC. These ambassador-led trips provide a supportive environment for beginners to learn alongside their peers. You don't need to be a beginner to attend, even more advanced climbers can touch up on their lead climbing skills.

Gear Scholarship:

Part of their membership funds go towards helping underprivileged climbers access all the essential gear like helmets, shoes, harnesses, and belay devices.

How to Get Involved

If LCC sounds like it's your community, you can get involved by attending a meet-up, signing up for a class, or participating in a clinic. They also offer memberships that help keep their mission alive. You can sign up for a free membership to stay in the loop through their newsletter, or you can sign up for a $50/year membership to get perks like discounted gear through partner brands.

LCC is your go-to organization if you’re just getting started in your climbing journey, looking for a group to climb with, or wanting to support the climbing community. Learn more about their organization here.

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