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Drytooling Meetup - Mountaineers Seattle Program Center

Let's practice our grips, hooks and stein pulls, wild yelling and MORE!

  • Wed, Nov 19, 2025
  • Seattle Climbing Committee
  • Climbing
  • Intermediate Alpine
  • Adults
  • Casual
  • Casual

SHOULDER SEASON SUPPORT GROUP: Sharp Things & Questionable Choices!

The rocks are weeping, the alpine's a slushy hellscape, and your climbing shoes are growing mushrooms. Time to embrace the dark arts of drytooling—because nothing says "I make good choices" like swinging medieval weapons at innocent gym holds.

Join our ragtag band of tool-wielding degenerates for an evening of controlled chaos. We'll pump out on jugs, accidentally destroy some holds (sorry gym staff), compare forearm bruises, and debate whether that move was actually a figure-4 or just panic-induced interpretive dance.

Bring your tools, your questionable technique, and that masochistic enthusiasm that got you into climbing in the first place. We'll share terrible beta, spot with varying degrees of competence, and collectively pretend those rental tools aren't absolutely destroying our shoulders.

No heroes here—just a bunch of dirtbags refusing to accept that sometimes the weather wins. Tape your hands, lower your expectations, and let's get weird with it.

Warning: May result in newfound respect for actual ice climbers and/or existential questions about your hobby choices.⛏️

This is a peer session (not a class) but all levels welcome!  No prior experience necessary.

5:30-8pm
Seattle Program Center
Basement Drytooling Walls

Route/Place

Mountaineers Seattle Program Center


Roster
Required Equipment

Required Equipment

Helmet, eye protection and stoke are all that is required.  Rock shoes highly recommend, no crampons allowed.

Bring your tools or borrow some from your peers!

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