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Gold Crush Climbing Gym

Have you been to Gold Crush Climbing Gym?  The 3000 square foot indoor climbing gym offers over 70 different routes, with options for bouldering, top rope and lead climbing.  The gym opened a year ago off Whispering Pines Lane (between…
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Reel Rock Tour

The Reel Rock Tour is coming to town tonight, Friday, December 20th at the Miners Foundry.  A fundraiser for CRAGS, the Northern California non profit organization dedicated to helping climbers and protecting local climbing areas.  So whether…
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Rock Climbing

"Nevada County is an outdoor playground," says South Yuba Club trainer Joan Daugherty, "It's a great place to rock climb."  Joan's top three favorite places to climb are "Donner Summit, Bowman Lake and Auburn Quarry."  Mike Carville, owner…
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Bouldering in Nevada City

Along a the quiet country road called Factory Street are a collection of granite boulders with telltale chalk marks on them.  The chalk is used by local climbers to grip the tiny ledges as they maneuver around the granite slabs.  Here is…