Admission: $10 for adults, $5 for children 12 and under. 100% of the proceeds will go to benefit the CCC’s purchase of Laurel Knob. This party BYOB but you must be able to show identification if you're drinkin'. Inner Peaks will be grilling burgers and dogs (hot, not crag) for your dining pleasure.

Door prize and silent auction items now total over $12k -- but we have to convert it to cash to make it useful to the Knob effort! Everybody who attends will be entered automatically in a drawing to win a tandem skydive from Carolina Skydive, a Mammut Rope, a day of climbing at the otherwise-closed-to-climbing Chimney Rock and much more!

Our silent auction will include a First Ascent with CCC president Sean Cobourn at his secret crag. Bid on hi-tech apparel from Outdoor Research and Mammut, climbing gear from Black Diamond, Metolius, Trango, and Petzl and backpacks from Gregory. Starting bids on all items will be at less than 50% of retail.

Plus Kurt Smith will show his ‘Greatest Hits’ slideshow presentation and a complete Laurel Knob topo will be available for sale.

We also offer three clinics -- prior the party from 5pm-7pm -- for a nominal donation of $15 per person. You have to pre-register for these, with a limit of ten per clinic, so make sure you do not miss your opportunity.

1. Chris Brown (the_alpine– Climbing Photography.

This clinic offers the basic concepts of outdoor photography. Addressing issues of composition, lighting, exposure and timing. Will include a private screening of some of Chris’ best action photos.

2. Donovan Craig – Training for Climbing.

We have designed this clinic to help you sort through what works, what does not and how to get the most out of training. We will discuss warm-up, different training devices (hangboards, campus rungs, etc.), different training methods, and injury prevention. We will also look at designing training regiments for targeting different disciplines, bouldering vs. sport, endurance vs. power, and so on. Come and join us for an introduction to training. And learn to increase your power and/or endurance.

3. Adam Fox – Self rescue.

This 2 hour course will look at setting yourself up for success minimizing the chances of creating a situation that requires a rescue in the first place. We will look at cutting edge rescue techniques with new devices and theories. Forget the ‘Belay Escape’ and anything you have seen in current manuals or magazines!

Bonus Clinic Adam Fox - Outdoor Smart Anchors.

This Clinic will be held on Sunday July 16th from 9am-4pm, there is a limit of 8 participants. Adam Fox will lead a day long anchors class at Crowder’s Mountain State Park. Cost is $85 per person and pre-registration is required.

This class will look at current climbing equipment, materials, use and limitations and how to build quick and efficient anchors for the single and multi-pitch environment. We will look at rock and component evaluation, component connection methods, how to tie into and utilize these different anchors for efficient climbing systems.

Ah well, you'll be there in spirit, I suppose. :)

I saw your post in CI's gri-gri thread. Not sure when I'll be back in MD. My family is bugging me to come up, but I think I want to wait till the weather cools down a little. When I do, I'd like to set aside a day to hit Annapolis Rocks -- I'll keep you cats posted!

Oooooo... that is an interesting thought. Let me bring it to the attention of the organizers and see what they say.

If you can't set up an auction, is there at least a way to by a ticket to get in on the drawings without being there?

Hey Jay, on the home page it makes fundraiser sound like its at Laurel Knob, instead of Inner Peaks- just thought i'd share that with you, did want a bunch of sorry sods thinking that they were going out to Laurel Knob the day of!