Leavenworth Bouldering — The Travel Guide for Climbing in Leavenworth, Washington
Leavenworth, Washington’s high-quality granite, easy approaches, and great camping make it the Pacific Northwest’s premiere bouldering destination. With well over 1,000 problems, many of which are roadside, Leavenworth bouldering offers an amazing landscape to accrue...
Red Rock Bouldering — The Travel Guide for Climbing in Red Rock Nevada
Red Rock Canyon is home to some of the best sandstone bouldering in the western United States. The most popular areas are the sunny Kraft Boulders and Calico Basin which offer dozens of classic moderate boulder problems within proximity of each other. If you...
Top 10 Boulders in The New River Gorge, West Virginia
The New River Gorge, or NRG, in West Virginia is one of the newest National Parks and home to perhaps the best sandstone in the country or even the world! Located in the region surrounding Fayetteville, West Virginia and the famous New River Gorge Bridge, this...
Top 10 Boulders in Leavenworth, Washington
Leavenworth, Washington is the state’s most popular bouldering area, featuring over a thousand easily accessible granite boulder problems. Scattered primarily throughout Tumwater and Icicle Canyons, Leavenworth climbing is similar to Little Cottonwood or Joe’s Valley,...
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…