16th Annual Silent Auction

The Silent is Auction is the WMCC's biggest fundraiser of the year. Auction revenue will help protect your local crags! Your support directly benefits the places you love by paying for the porta potties at Farley and Hanging Mountain, new trail signs, kiosks, trail work, and WMCC operating costs.

The WMCC is hiring our first ever part time Operating Executive to support the board of directors in its mission to ensure access to climbing areas across western Massachusetts. The Operating Executive will be crucial in securing grants and implementing the Trail Stewardship Program. The goal of the Trail Stewardship Program is to increase the number of volunteer trail days and to improve trails and belay platforms at our local crags. We are also continuing development of trails and climbs at Hanging Mountain and always pursuing new opportunities to secure access to climbing in western Massachusetts.

Western Massachusetts Climbers Coalition (WMCC) is a small nonprofit fueled by volunteers. The mission of the WMCC is to build inclusive relationships with diverse advocacy groups, state and local governments, landowners, and conservation groups to keep climbing areas open and accessible to climbers from all backgrounds, and to conserve the climbing environment in Western Massachusetts.

The WMCC stewards over 13 climbing areas in Western MA, including the popular sport climbing destination, Farley Ledges. In Nov. 2019, the WMCC, with the help of the Ragged Mountain Foundation and the Access Fund, purchased a cliff in Sandisfield, MA called Hanging Mountain. We continue to develop Hanging Mountain through the Route Development Mentorship program and to steward our local climbing areas through the Trail Stewardship Program.

If you want to donate or get involved, you can find out more at climbgneiss.org and @wmcc_climb_gneiss . #ClimbGneiss