Stronghold Climbing Gym

Feet slipping or missing holds? Don't trust your feet? This clinic is for you! Our Footwork Clinic is designed to help climbers improve their footwork so they can be confident on a jib, dual-tex, smear, the dance floor, & more!

Sign up 7/28 at Echo Park--spots are limited, sign up today: strongholdclimb.com/ep/footwork

In addition to each category having its own final boulder — the trademark highlight of Beat the Heat — categories are genderless as well.

We are curious about how eliminating gendered categories may help dismantle the barriers that, while arguably constructed in an attempt at fairness, ultimately sustain the status quo of unequal representation within a competition.

We've seen great diversity in both our competitors and last year's winners, and hope to see even greater diversity this coming BTH. We encourage climbers of all genders (and skill levels!) to participate to help us showcase and celebrate what we know to be true — that climbing is for everyone, and every body.

Registration is open for our 3rd annual Beat the Heat which falls on Saturday, August 15th. For more on genderless categories and to sign up for this year's BTH, click the link: strongholdclimb.com/ep/beattheheat

Better late than never, but here's a shoutout to the newest additions to our amazing routesetting team: Thomas, Kyoshi, & Ollie! Look out for those TN, KT, & OK tags at both gyms--they've been putting up some 🔥.

Today's Steep set at Lincoln Heights is all them, come session with us tonight and check out the new set!

Route reading is an underrated skill in climbing that requires a systematic approach towards analyzing, visualization, and sequencing of movement.

If you've ever wished you could see the beta before you try a climb, this clinic is for you! Our Route Reading Clinic will take place Tuesday, 7/21, @ Echo Park--limited spots, all levels are welcome.

strongholdclimb.com/ep/routereading

Beat the Heat early registration ends this Saturday, 7/11. Sign up for one of our biggest comps of the year and receive this year's BTH event tee! ⬅️

Sponsors this year +more!

Our annual Beat the Heat Competition is back at Echo Park on August 15th. BTH is a one-of-a-kind community bouldering competition based on redpoint level rather than gender or age. Each category will have its own final boulder — the trademark highlight of Beat the Heat — and a total of five winners across five categories (fifteen top 3 podium spots)!

Check out the finals boulders from last year ⬅️. Early registration is now open, sign up today! Strongholdclimb.com/ep/beattheheat

We have great sponsors this year +more!

The Stronghold Climbing Gym Echo Park is excited to host live music again for this year’s Echo Park Rising on August 29th and 30th!

We’re looking for musicians in our community who’d like to perform at our space. There’s no cost to perform, and, as a thank-you for sharing your music with our community, The Stronghold will comp one month of your membership.

Interested? Please submit an application by hitting the link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf3xFr9OgyYwkEZvZeQ1KZ-LLv21x_EqW3SakPvcjS3UTu52g/viewform. Applications to perform close on July 14th, and selected artists will be notified by July 17th.

If you have any questions, please reach out!

Beginning tomorrow, 6/23, Lincoln Heights will be open with normal hours! Come grab a session with us.

We will be open 3 pm till 11 pm in Lincoln Heights on Monday, June 22, due to continued smoke from the Boyle Heights warehouse fire.

The same weather pattern as today is predicted. This photo shows the air at 9:30 am.  By mid-afternoon, winds picked up and air quality was healthy.

We will have regular hours (6 am - 10 pm) at Echo Park. Please climb with us there if you were planning a morning or early-afternoon session at Lincoln Heights.  

Apologies for the disruption and wishing the success in fighting the blaze!

We will be open at 4 pm in Lincoln Heights as the air quality is improving and winds are picking up.

Until then, please climb with us in Echo Park (3 miles away from Lincoln Heights), where we have the air filtration and air conditioner going.

Wishing you a strong and light summer solstice, and sending gratitude to the as they battle the blaze in Boyle Heights.

Photo credit: Our Brewery neighbor