Drytooling Meetup - Mountaineers Seattle Program Center

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Drytooling Meetup - Mountaineers Seattle Program Center

Pre-Turkey Tool Swinging: Earn Your Feast with Ice Axes

  • Wed, Nov 26, 2025
  • Seattle Climbing Committee
  • Climbing
  • Intermediate Alpine
  • All Who Qualify, Adults
  • Casual
  • Casual

PRE-TURKEY DAY TOOLS: A Thanksgiving Drytooling Feast of Suffering

Forget the turkey—we're carving up plastic holds with pointy metal! Before your family argues about politics over pumpkin pie, we're settling our differences the civilized way: dangling from ice axes and questioning our life choices.

Join us for a pre-feast calorie deficit session where we'll practice our gratitude (for bomber placements), stuff ourselves (into awkward poses), and give thanks (that holds haven't ripped out yet). We're talking cranberry-red pump, mashed-potato soft catches, and enough groaning to rival Uncle Jerry after his third helping.

This is your chance to work up an appetite that justifies demolishing that entire pecan pie later. Plus, nothing makes you appreciate modern conveniences like spending an evening pretending the ice age never ended.

BYOT (Bring Your Own Tools). Gratitude optional. Gravy stains on harness discouraged but understood. 🦃⛏️

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

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Mountaineers Seattle Program Center


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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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