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• The ROCK Project: Sign The Pact

  Building toward a series of events launching in Spring 2015, the Access Fund's ROCK Project kicks off with The Pact: a pledge to uphold good climbing ethics, protect the mountain environments where we climb and ensure continued access to the cliffs and crags we love. We invite you to join us, and sign The Pact. Read more >

• GROUPS WE SUPPORT: Colorado Environmental Coalition

  We take a large amount of pride in our history of outspoken advocacy for conservation and access causes, as well as in our support of conservation, education and recreation groups on the front lines. Read more >

• GROUPS WE SUPPORT: American Alpine Club

  We take a large amount of pride in our history of outspoken advocacy for conservation and access causes, as well as in our support of conservation, education and recreation groups on the front lines. Read more >

• GROUPS WE SUPPORT: HERA Climb4Life

  We take a large amount of pride in our history of outspoken advocacy for conservation and access causes, as well as in our support of conservation, education and recreation groups on the front lines. Read more >

• GROUPS WE SUPPORT: Montana Wilderness Association

  We take a large amount of pride in our history of outspoken advocacy for conservation and access causes, as well as in our support of conservation, education and recreation groups on the front lines. Read more >

• GROUPS WE SUPPORT: No More Homeless Pets in Utah

  We take a large amount of pride in our history of outspoken advocacy for conservation and access causes, as well as in our support of conservation, education and recreation groups on the front lines. Read more >

• GROUPS WE SUPPORT: Outdoor Outreach

  We take a large amount of pride in our history of outspoken advocacy for conservation and access causes, as well as in our support of conservation, education and recreation groups on the front lines. Read more >

• GROUPS WE SUPPORT: The Conservation Alliance

  We take a large amount of pride in our history of outspoken advocacy for conservation and access causes, as well as in our support of conservation, education and recreation groups on the front lines. Read more >

• GROUPS WE SUPPORT: Utah Avalanche Center

  We take a large amount of pride in our history of outspoken advocacy for conservation and access causes, as well as in our support of conservation, education and recreation groups on the front lines. Read more >

• GROUPS WE SUPPORT: Utah Clean Energy

  We take great pride in our history of outspoken advocacy for conservation and access causes (locally, regionally and globally), as well as in our efforts to support conservation, education and recreation groups that are on the front-lines of protecting and preserving the wild lands we love and depend on, and this ongoing series will serve to highlight and promote these important groups. Read more >

• GROUPS WE SUPPORT: Winter Wildlands Alliance

  We take a large amount of pride in our history of outspoken advocacy for conservation and access causes, as well as in our support of conservation, education and recreation groups on the front lines. Read more >

• The Action Fund: Taking Responsibility

  Black Diamond Brand Advocate Tyler Wilcutt realized early in his climbing career that the hardware on many routes was not monitored by anyone but the members of the community who used it. And many of those users did not realize their own responsibility. So Tyler took it upon himself to replace old gear, starting the Action Fund. Read more >

• GROUPS WE SUPPORT: Rocky Mountain Field Institute

  We take a large amount of pride in our history of outspoken advocacy for conservation and access causes, as well as in our support of conservation, education and recreation groups on the front lines. Read more >

• GROUPS WE SUPPORT: American Mountain Guides Association

  We take a large amount of pride in our history of outspoken advocacy for conservation and access causes, as well as in our support of conservation, education and recreation groups on the front lines. Read more >

• A Question of Risk: Drew Hardesty

  In the seventh installment to our video series on risk, Utah Avalanche Center Forecaster, Jenny Lake Climbing Ranger and skier Drew Hardesty talks risk and how the euphoria of powder can change your life. Read more >

• The Human Factor: Chapter Two

  Despite hours of training and years of experience, it happens. Somewhere between digging pits and assessing terrain traps a lapse in good judgment occurs, and avalanches entrap even the most experienced skiers. And we are left asking, why? In the second chapter of a five-part series exploring five separate slides, the editors of Powder elucidate The Human Factor. Read more >