{"id":795158,"date":"2019-04-24T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/usa-climbing-sport-event-comes-to-eagle\/"},"modified":"2019-04-24T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T00:24:00","slug":"usa-climbing-sport-event-comes-to-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/usa-climbing-sport-event-comes-to-eagle\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Climbing sport event comes to Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.7299703264095\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-364931-137\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Climbing-VDN-042219-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Climbing-VDN-042219.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Daniel Davis | Special to the Daily | Eagle Climbing + Fitness attracted climbers from around the region to the new gym on Saturday, April 20, for a sport climbing event sanctioned by USA Climbing. It was the first bit sport climbing event to take place in the new gym, which opened in November of 2018.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"9\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Climbing-VDN-042219.jpg\" alt=\"Eagle Climbing + Fitness attracted climbers from around the region to the new gym on Saturday, April 20, for a sport climbing event sanctioned by USA Climbing. It was the first bit sport climbing event to take place in the new gym, which opened in November of 2018.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"13\">\n<p><strong>Eagle Climbing + Fitness attracted climbers from around the region to the new gym on Saturday, April 20, for a sport climbing event sanctioned by USA Climbing. It was the first bit sport climbing event to take place in the new gym, which opened in November of 2018.<\/strong><br \/>Daniel Davis | Special to the Daily<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Climbing-VDN-042219-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Climbing-VDN-042219-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Daniel Davis | Special to the Daily | Alex Current of Eagle competes in the 2019 Sport &amp; Speed Local at Eagle Climbing + Fitness in Eagle on Saturday. Current finished fifth in the Male Youth C division.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Climbing-VDN-042219-1.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Current of Eagle competes in the 2019 Sport &amp; Speed Local at Eagle Climbing + Fitness in Eagle on Saturday. Current finished fifth in the Male Youth C division.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>Alex Current of Eagle competes in the 2019 Sport &amp; Speed Local at Eagle Climbing + Fitness in Eagle on Saturday. Current finished fifth in the Male Youth C division.<\/strong><br \/>Daniel Davis | Special to the Daily<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Climbing-VDN-042219-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Climbing-VDN-042219-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Daniel Davis | Special to the Daily |\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"6\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Climbing-VDN-042219-2.jpg\" alt><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>Daniel Davis | Special to the Daily<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Climbing-VDN-042219-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Climbing-VDN-042219-3.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Daniel Davis | Special to the Daily |\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"6\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Climbing-VDN-042219-3.jpg\" alt><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>Daniel Davis | Special to the Daily<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Climbing-VDN-042219-4-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Climbing-VDN-042219-4.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Daniel Davis | Special to the Daily |\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"6\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Climbing-VDN-042219-4.jpg\" alt><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>Daniel Davis | Special to the Daily<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Climbing-VDN-042219-5-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Climbing-VDN-042219-5.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Daniel Davis | Special to the Daily |\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"6\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Climbing-VDN-042219-5.jpg\" alt><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>Daniel Davis | Special to the Daily<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/usa-climbing-sport-event-comes-to-eagle\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/usa-climbing-sport-event-comes-to-eagle\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Eagle Talons local climbing team hosted a USA Climbing sport competition over the weekend, a milestone event for the new gym in Eagle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">With the bouldering season now over, the local team has turned its attention to sport climbing, using ropes. Saturday\u2019s sport climbing event was the first-ever USA Climbing sanctioned ropes climbing event to take place at Eagle Climbing + Fitness, which just opened in November of 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Teams visited from as far as Salt Lake City to compete in the event, called the 2019 Sport &amp; Speed Local.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Cody Abshear from Team Grand Valley Climbing in Grand Junction said the new gym has brought his team to the area several times in recent months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe came for a bouldering comp in the fall, and we came here a couple weeks ago just to train,\u201d Abshear said. \u201cTo get more variety, also they have a regulation speed wall which we don\u2019t have, and their routes are really good, so we really appreciate being able to come up here and train and enjoy this gym.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Abshear has been attending USA Climbing events for the last five years, and said he has witnessed tremendous growth in the sport. He said with the number of gyms that have popped up on the Front Range in recent years, and the fact that a 10,500-square-foot climbing gym now exists in Eagle, speaks to the popularity of the sport. He also said the fact that Eagle was attracting teams from the Front Range on Saturday was a testament to the fact that it has already become a popular venue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s honestly pretty amazing they\u2019re pulling from the Front Range with all the gyms that they have over there,\u201d Abshear said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Subhead\">CLIMBING OPPORTUNITIES<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Eagle Talons team is led by coach Larry Moore, who also manages Eagle Climbing + Fitness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Moore said the team has benefited considerably from the new space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Local youth climbers Benjamin Dantas and Ethan Pitcher made it to their respective national competitions \u2014 Dantas competed at the USA Climbing youth bouldering national championships while Pitcher competed at the Canadian youth national championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Pitcher\u2019s parents were born in Nova Scotia and moved to Eagle County in 2004. Pitcher, who is now a senior at Red Canyon High School, started competing on Moore\u2019s team when he was in fourth grade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cClimbing has opened up a lot of opportunities for Ethan,\u201d Pitcher\u2019s mother, Kim Flynn, said on Sunday. \u201cHe\u2019s traveled the country, it\u2019s kept him on track in school and it\u2019s given him a focus on what he wants to do in life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">At the bouldering youth national championships, Pitcher\u2019s focus was to get an invite to the open division, which is the national championships for all athletes, not just youth competitors. He did, and competed in adult nationals, as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cHe got to go to two national championships in two months, which gave him some great experience,\u201d Moore said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Pitcher hopes to make the Canadian National Team in May and compete at the world championships. But first, he\u2019ll have the Canadian speed nationals, also in May. In preparing for that event, Pitcher has been traveling the state hitting different 15-meter walls. He skipped the Eagle competition on Saturday to hit Earth Treks in Englewood, where he clocked a time of 7 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThat\u2019s his new personal best,\u201d Flynn said. \u201cSo he\u2019s really doing well in all of the disciplines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/usa-climbing-sport-event-comes-to-eagle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eagle Climbing + Fitness attracted climbers from around the region to the new gym on Saturday, April 20, for a sport climbing event sanctioned by USA Climbing. It was the first bit sport climbing event to take place in the new gym, which opened in November of 2018.Daniel Davis | Special to the Daily Alex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-795158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 21:58:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}