9th Annual
New Paltz Climbing Film Festival
Events
FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 5, 2007:
CLIMBERS RECEPTION AND SLIDE SHOW
Mohonk Preserve Visitor Center. The Preserve will host a reception at 7 and
at 8 pm watch Shawangunk Pump! This film by longtime Gunks climber and photographer/writer
Julie Seyfert Lillis highlights 25 classic roofs. Witness your fellow Gunkies
groping, humping, and sometimes even styling these harrowing features that
make the Gunks so unique in the world.
SATURDAY,
OCTOBER 6, 2007
GCC BAGEL BREAKFAST, 8-10 am
Steel Bridge in the Mohonk Preserve.
Donation $5 with all proceeds to the Gunks Climbers? Coalition Rescue Fund.
ENJOY
CLIMBING IN THE GUNKS
noted for its classic easy to mid-range routes between 5.2 and 5.10, and
bouldering at all levels.
SAFE CLIMBING
CLINICS:
A series of Safe Climbing Clinics will be conducted by
local guide services. Check with Rock and Snow after
September 21 for schedule and to sign up.
SUNDAY,
OCTOBER 7, 2007
Safe Climbing clinics
Continue
Enjoy climbing in the Gunks
7
pm, Rock & Snow. Stolby Style, Siberian Free Soloing with
Jonathan Thesenga and Brittany Griffith.
In a central Siberian nature reserve called Stolby the locals have a 150-year
tradition of free soloing rock formations up to 400 feet tall. Rock climbing
there is a community activity and large crowds of all ages ? everyone climbing
without ropes are common on the routes.
See
the film and meet Jonathan Thesenga and Brittany Griffith
as they recount their recent trip to Stolby. According
to the locals, they were the first American rock climbers
to choose Stolby as a climbing destination and, as you'll
see, their minds were completely blown away.
Ninth Annual New Paltz Climbing
Film Festival
7: 30 pm October 6, 2007
State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz
in the Julien J. Studley Theater
- 2007 Reel Rock Tour: Chris Sharmas
King Lines In person, filmmaker Josh Lowell
- Win great raffle prizes and help
support the programs of the New Paltz Outing Club and
the Mohonk Preserve.
- Show your stuff in the Gunks Grunt Pull-up
Contest and win a gift certificate from
Rock & Snow.
- The 9th Annual Thom Scheuer Award for Land
Stewardship will be presented during the
Film Festival
The 9th Annual Thom Scheuer Award
for Land Stewardship
Previous Winners:
2006 - Richard Gottlieb
2005 - Dr. Heinz Meng
2004 - Gardiner Fire and Rescue Department
2003 - The Access Fund
2002 - John Stannard
2001 - Dick Williams
2000 - Dr. Ed Reppert
1999 - Joe Bridges
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New Paltz Climbing
Film Festival Party
After the Film Festival, rendezvous with old friends and meet new ones at
Bacchus, the Official Base Camp of the New Paltz Climbing Film Festival,
4
South Chestnut Street, New Paltz (be sure to take your Film Festival ticket
stub)
The 9th Annual New Paltz Climbing
Film Festival T-shirts (100% cotton)
are available at Rock & Snow and at the Film Festival.
Wear a New Paltz
Climbing Shirt, 1st thru 9th, to the Film Festival on October 6 and win a
chance
for a great prize. The older the Climbing Festival T-shirt, the better your
chances.
* Note: To access the cliffs, purchase a Mohonk
Preserve Day Pass or Membership at the West Trapps Trailhead
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