Tramway, California Bouldering Guide: How, When, and Where
Tramway Bouldering Overview Palm Springs, California, might be famous for its desert heat, but just a tram ride away, you’ll find yourself in a world of towering conifers, ancient granite boulders, and crisp alpine climbing conditions. Welcome to Tramway...
The Best Boulder Problems in Tramway: Ranked
The Best Boulder Problems in Tramway: Ranked Alpine bouldering in the desert?! That doesn’t seem possible, unless you are at the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. For over fifty years, the tram has brought tourists back and forth from the steamy desert floor to the cool...
The Best Boulder Problems in Black Mountain: Ranked
The Best Boulder Problems in Black Mountain: Ranked Tucked high in the San Jacinto Mountains, Black Mountain is one of Southern California’s most iconic granite bouldering areas. Known for its crisp friction, historic lines, and quiet forest setting, it’s a must-visit...
Mount Woodson Bouldering Guide: How, When, and Where
Mount Woodson Bouldering Overview Tucked in the hills east of San Diego, Mount Woodson is a historic granite bouldering area known for its razor-sharp crimps, granite egg-shaped highballs, and old-school testpieces. With hundreds of problems scattered across the...
Introducing the KAYA Smart Logbook: Climb Smarter and Train Better
The new KAYA Smart Logbook turns your climbing history into useful, personalized guidance, helping you decide what to climb, understand how your sessions are going, and make informed training decisions over time. It is designed to support climbers of all levels, whether you are following a structured training plan, working with a coach, returning from…
KAYA Attends the Access Fund’s 2026 Climbing Advocacy Conference
West Virginia here we come! Once a year, our good partners at Access Fund corral dozens of Local Climbing Organizations (LCOs) from across the nation to network, learn from one another, and grow toward our shared ambitions of acquiring, protecting, expanding, and conserving access to our valuable climbing resources. This year was KAYA’s second in…
How the Climbing Community Came Together to Save Farley Ledges, Massachusetts
In May, climbers across the country came together for a common goal: protecting access to one of the most iconic climbing destinations in the Northeast. The Western Massachusetts Climbers’ Coalition (WMCC) launched the Save Farley campaign with an ambitious mission—raise $250,000 to secure the future of Farley Ledges and build a new parking area that…
The Fall of America’s Last Iconic Projects?
The Dark Side, Devilution, and Event Horizon (V16). Think of North America’s most iconic and trafficked bouldering destinations.In all likelihood, one or all of the following came to mind: Yosemite, Bishop, and SquamishThey have all the components. Laden with mind-melding, iconic media from Rampage to Reel Rock, generation-defining testpieces such as Midnight Lightning (V8), Evilution…
Gym Rat Newsletter // Edition 1
James Ratcliffe Magnesius (Jim Rat Mag, to his friends), listening to “NEVER ENOUGH” by Turnstile and getting psyched for a session. Welcome to Gym Rat, the world’s first-ever indoor climbing newsletter! Hi readers, This project came about because I (your editor, Callie) am bad at directions and became very confused while attempting to locate the…
KAYA 2025 Data Ethos & Retrospective
Where we are today and how we got here In recent months, it’s come into focus for our team just how disruptive KAYA (and digital products like it) can be to the current status-quo of climbing information sharing and guidebooks. We’ve been moving very quickly in the last few years, striving to build an awesome…