How Does it Work?
Our Second Annual 24 hour Remote Climbing Competition!
Let’s break it down. Climbing indoor/outdoors? It’s all good. First start by registering and paying the entry fee. Early registration (September 27- October 11) guarantees a Vert for Vets shirt and other comp goodies shipped right to you. Entry fee during Early registration is $40, after early registration the cost jumps to $50. Choose your 24-hour window between November 7th and 8th - then get to climbing and track your vertical feet!
Climbing in a gym? Ask one of the employees at the gym what the height of the walls are and track your laps! Climbing outdoors? Rad. Keep track of your routes and your feet climbed through your climbing portal profile! We prefer updates every two hours to keep the competition exciting - if you’re out of service you will have to update at the end.
Top three climbers with the most vertical feet climbed will take home prizes. Subcategories: most feet climbed on lead, most hard routes (5.10 and above), and most fun follow on social media during the competition as well as top three most fundraisers if you choose to fundraise.
Scoring is based simply on number of feet climbed, funds raised, number of most hard routes sent, number of climbs completed on lead, and the most fun for the Crux team to follow on Instagram.
++ Competitor Packet, Fundraising Packet, and Disclaimer can be found on your climbing profile page once you register.
Interested in Fundraising?
Fundraising for the competition isn’t mandatory, but will it be fun to ask Aunt Linda to pledge 10 cents or 20 cents, per foot climbed? We think so! Yes, of course there’s always the option of just making a one time donation through your Climber Profile, but we thought this might make things more interesting!
How it will work? Create your climber profile and send out to family and friends with your heartfelt reason for climbing and supporting Crux and our mission!
Rules
You have 24-hours timeframe between November 7 and November 8. We trust you to only report the routes and feet that you personally climbed - all routes need to be verifiable via Mountain Project.
Traditional, sport, top rope or lead acceptable, we’re not going to tell you to go solo, but if that’s what you do, we will accept the vertical feet.
Multipitch is acceptable. Track feet and pitch breakdown. Example: I’m climbing Finger Trip, I input Finger Trip Pitch 1, Feet: 180, Grade: 5.7, for Pitch 2, I’ll write Finger Trip Pitch 2, Feet: 114, Grade: 5.6, and so on.
Gym climbing and outdoor climbing are acceptable, no bouldering - sorry!
The route must be listed as a 5.5 or higher including on multipitch routes. If a route is lower than 5.5 on your multipitch, you don’t count that pitch.
Pink Pointing is acceptable for Lead.
All routes - grades and height must be verifiable by Mountain Project. Although this a climbers community forum so opinions may vary; we will have to side with the route height and grade posted on Mountain Project. If you are climbing in a gym - be sure to include the name of your gym and location.
Your route must be listed on Mountain Project as this is a remote competition. This is currently our best way to verify.
List routes in feet not meters.
List routes under the YDS.
See each scoring category for more specific rules.
Must be climbing in the United States (decision based on shipping prizes).
Q + A From our socials
Q: Can you only sign up for the competition if you’re a veteran or military?
A: No! Anyone is welcome to sign up (veteran, military, civilian).
Q: Is the winner determined based on how many routes they climb?
A: No, the winners will be determined based on how many vertical feet they climb.
Q: Does the competition only include lead climbing?
A: No, you can lead or top rope. You just need to be climbing at least 5.5 - no hiking. Just climbing rocks or plastic rocks.
Q: For time wise is it any 24 hour period over the 7th and 8th?
A: Correct, consecutive 24 hour period between the 7th and 8th.
Q: Can I climb the same route multiple times?
A: Yes, again, and again, and again. There is no limit. It might just get incredibly boring?
Q: It is a virtual contest, but will there be a group climb?
A: No official group climb. Grab some friends to support you on a day out!
Q: For the Lead category - does feet climbed play a role or is it just the most amount of routes on lead.
A: The most feet climbed on lead.