Bighorn Climbers' Coalition

Bighorn Climbers' Coalition We will work hard to ensure that climbers continue to be a responsible, conscientious, and relatively low-impact user group.

The Bighorn Climbers’ Coalition is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, protecting and promoting access to climbing resources in the Bighorn Mountains and Bighorn Basin of Wyoming. FOUNDING PRINCIPLES

1.BCC’s founding members and board of directors are a passionate and dedicated group of longtime area climbers and Wyoming residents who currently live in the Bighorn Basin.

2.The BCC

is heavily invested in forging and maintaining positive connections between the greater climbing community and relevant land managers and local communities.

3.The BCC intends to raise funds, obtain grants and organize efforts to improve local recreation areas. This will benefit the climbing community as well as other recreational user groups while decreasing potential negative environmental impacts from climbers.

4.One of our biggest goals is to get a permanent outhouse facility established in Ten Sleep Canyon in a location that makes it easily accessible for climbers. This would be a service to others enjoying recreational pursuits in the canyon as well.

5.Other BCC goals include working with land managers to find funding and manpower for posting information and signage at relevant pullouts in both Ten Sleep Canyon and on Cedar Mountain in Cody, as well as organizing and participating or recruiting participants for trash pickups, better campground management, educational outreach efforts, and trail improvement/building days.

6.The BCC aims to establish Memorandums of Understanding with all relevant land managers outlining and detailing the relationship between and duties of the climbing community and the land manager.

7.The BCC intends to be actively visible and accessible in the local communities that stand to make direct economic gains from the presence of both visiting and local climbers. We hope to establish more active relationships and dialogs between the greater climbing community and the town of Ten Sleep and cities of Cody and Worland.

8.Anyone can make donations and/or become a member. An individual membership costs $25 per year.

9.The BCC is an Access Fund affiliate, meaning that we’re partnered with the nation’s largest climbers’ advocacy group.

10.The BCC supports the continued development of and access to our climbing resources on public lands.

06/23/2025
Come join us this Friday and Saturday for a fun two day event!Friday night includes:• Black Diamond Athlete Presentation...
06/23/2025

Come join us this Friday and Saturday for a fun two day event!

Friday night includes:
• Black Diamond Athlete Presentation
• BCC update on the climbing management plan and federal sell-off proposal
• Short films
• Live DJ

Our trash clean up will occur on Saturday at 10am at the Valhalla/FCR large parking pull out.

Vendor village to start at 5 with live music starting at 6:30!

Join us June 27th and June 28th for the Bighorn Climbers Coalition Climbers Festival at Ten Sleep Brewing Co. On Friday, June 27th, at 8 PM, don't miss the Bolts and Anchors Initiative Speaker Night. This event features a Black Diamond athlete and members of the Bighorn Climbers Coalition, followed by a short climbing film and a live DJ dance party. On Saturday, June 28th, start your day with a trash cleanup at 10 AM to help keep our climbing areas pristine. The festival kicks off Saturday, June 28th, at 5 PM, with live music by Marlee Holderman and LLMN starting at 6:30 PM. Come for the climbing, stay for the community and celebration!
https://bighornclimbers.org/festival/

Want to support the climbers festival from afar? You can text to donate! Every dollar counts.
06/29/2024

Want to support the climbers festival from afar? You can text to donate! Every dollar counts.

As we get ready to kick off festival activities tonight, we’d like to take a special moment to thank for sponsors. Our k...
06/29/2024

As we get ready to kick off festival activities tonight, we’d like to take a special moment to thank for sponsors. Our key sponsors include:

our title sponsor! We could not make this event possible without Black Diamond. Thanks to for supporting our raffle and for the fantastic presentation by !

Second up are our friends from who are always a gracious host and sponsor. Without the assistance and support of the brewery, we would never be able to bring such a great event to the climbing community!

provides a live DJ set EVERY year! That’s AMAZING! Can you imagine a festival without him? We can’t. We are so grateful we can boogie to just great tunes.

is providing discounted climbing to Wyoming locals. Without our friends at , we would not be able to bring accessible climbing to our local communities.

Did you know that sponsored our movie night?

It takes a community to build events like this. We are grateful for all our sponsors regardless of size or donation. YOU make this happen, we simply just put the pieces together.

Can’t wait to see everyone tonight!

Join the Bighorn Climbers Coalition this Friday, June 28th for a kickoff to the 2024 Ten Sleep Climber's Festival featur...
06/26/2024

Join the Bighorn Climbers Coalition this Friday, June 28th for a kickoff to the 2024 Ten Sleep Climber's Festival featuring presentations by our Black Diamond athletes and showing one of our favorite climbing films! Our favorite DJ, Just Beef will be taking the Ten Sleep Festival stage at 10:00pm!!!

Tickets at the door for $20

Big UP's Dosage series documents climbing's state-of-the-art, capturing the spirit of the sport, and some of it's most spectacular moments. Volume V raises t...

Hello Tensleep climbers! Come join us at the Tensleep Climbing Festival taking place June 28th and 29th😁. Like last year...
05/20/2024

Hello Tensleep climbers! Come join us at the Tensleep Climbing Festival taking place June 28th and 29th😁. Like last year, the festival will be located at the Tensleep Brewing Co! ( ). As the heat starts to roll into the valley this late spring, we would like to throw a shout-out to an “overshadowed” sport climbing route named Dances With Cows. - Photo credit: Mike Snyder

11/21/2023

Community Alert! The Powder River Ranger District proposes to develop a Climbing Management Plan for Tensleep Canyon. The plan will outline where future route development may or may not occur and identify new system trails and parking areas. Now is your chance to provide comments and help shape the DRAFT climbing management plan for Tensleep.

Bighorn Climbers' Coalition and Access Fund are asking land managers to:
✅Ensure Tensleep Canyon remains accessible to climbers and allows sustainable development activities that protect the area’s natural and cultural resources.
✅Clearly define fixed anchor management objectives that will support climbing activities in Tensleep Canyon.
✅Establish management guidelines and climber education best practices for land managers.
✅Support proposed trail stewardship, parking, and toilet infrastructure.

Comment Here by November 24, 2023.
https://cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public/CommentInput?Project=64474

Come join us at the Cody Theater this Friday Nov. 17th for the New Reel Rock 17! Doors open at 6:30pm, the show will sta...
11/13/2023

Come join us at the Cody Theater this Friday Nov. 17th for the New Reel Rock 17! Doors open at 6:30pm, the show will start at 7pm😁. It's about time climbing culture made its way to Cody Wyoming! Featured stories are - PALESTINIAN CLIMBERS & ANDREW BISHARAT IN

RESISTANCE CLIMBING

In conflict-torn Palestine, a diverse group of climbers finds community, solace and redemption. (40 min) - SEB BOUIN IN

DNA

Stunning footage of 29-year-old French phenom as he tackles what may be the world’s hardest sport climb in the Verdon Gorge of France. (30 min). - BABSI ZANGERL & JACOPO LARCHER IN

BURNING THE FLAME

Elite Austrian power duo Babsi and Jacopo attempt a coveted free ascent of The Nameless Tower in Pakistan. (50 min)
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Come join us at the Cody Theater this Friday Nov. 17th for the New Reel Rock 17! Doors open at 6:30pm, the show will sta...
11/13/2023

Come join us at the Cody Theater this Friday Nov. 17th for the New Reel Rock 17! Doors open at 6:30pm, the show will start at 7pm😁. It's about time climbing culture made its way to Cody Wyoming! Featured stories are - PALESTINIAN CLIMBERS & ANDREW BISHARAT IN

RESISTANCE CLIMBING

In conflict-torn Palestine, a diverse group of climbers finds community, solace and redemption. (40 min) - SEB BOUIN IN

DNA

Stunning footage of 29-year-old French phenom as he tackles what may be the world’s hardest sport climb in the Verdon Gorge of France. (30 min). - BABSI ZANGERL & JACOPO LARCHER IN

BURNING THE FLAME

Elite Austrian power duo Babsi and Jacopo attempt a coveted free ascent of The Nameless Tower in Pakistan. (50 min) reelrock reelrock

Come join us at the Cody Movie Theater, November 17th for a showing of the most recent REEL ROCK film(16)! Doors open at...
11/03/2023

Come join us at the Cody Movie Theater, November 17th for a showing of the most recent REEL ROCK film(16)! Doors open at 6pm, movie starts at 6:30! movie

Attention Tensleep climbers! The Powder River Ranger District has proposed a climbing management plan for Tensleep Canyo...
10/30/2023

Attention Tensleep climbers! The Powder River Ranger District has proposed a climbing management plan for Tensleep Canyon outlining the possibility for route and trail development in the Canyon.”The project area is located from Meadowlark Lake and southwest on either side of the U.S.Highway 16 corridor to the Forest boundary at the bottom of the canyon”.

If anyone would like to voice input on the subject please visit the projects documents page at https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=64474 and drop a comment in the link located in the get connected tab. This project will be revised if we have valuable input.

Your thoughts and comments are much appreciated!

The Bighorn Anchor Initiative has been hard at work in the canyon, replacing bad bolts and updating anchors. We have upd...
08/03/2023

The Bighorn Anchor Initiative has been hard at work in the canyon, replacing bad bolts and updating anchors. We have updated 104 routes this season alone, including every route at Crag 6, Grasshopper Wall & many more! Your donations & membership to the BCC & other organizations like the ASCA make this work possible.

Local Ethic Reminders:
● Only the last person from your group should lower from the Climbtech Lowering hooks "Mussys".

● Top Rope on your own gear and use the lowering hooks for cleaning only.

● If your party is not present and ready to climb a specific route, please allow others to hop on in between.

These are considered the best practices around the world and help ensure that fixed anchor hardware lasts for a long time.

Please report any bad bolts / anchors / dangerous looking hardware via the link below.

Big shout out to the ASCA ( )for the extensive shipments of route replacement gear and equipment🙌.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftAa2kOKeXtvwPTakHRkGOFy0zZYvkUHYI1vRdMd9J67uTXw/viewform?pli=1

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