"WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO MAKE SURE THE AIR IS RIGHT."

The Hill to Crag series has been a remarkable success; led by our policy team and key volunteers, our Hill to Crag events have brought together local, state, and national policymakers, state offices of outdoor recreation, and AAC volunteers and staff.
The Hill to Crag events shifts the paradigm of standard advocacy meetings. Rather than visit offices on Capitol Hill or at state capitols, AAC’s Hill to Crag series brings lawmakers to our office–the great outdoors.
Below, take a deep dive into the Hill to Crag event from 2018 to now.
Help us advocate for public lands, fight climate change, and ensure equitable access to our favorite climbing areas across the country. Programs like Hill to Crag, our grassroots Climbers' Advocacy Network, Climb United, and our many other policy and community initiatives are leading the way, and they are made possible by climbers like you.
Thank you for taking the time to dive into this second edition of the AAC’s quarterly Guidebook. A lot of things are changing at the AAC, and we are energized by the new opportunities that these changes afford.
Powered by the AAC’s Catalyst grant, Jessica Anaruk and Micah Tedeschi took on to the big walls of the Mendenhall Towers, seven granite towers that rise high above the surrounding Mendenhall Glacier in southeast Alaska.
In 2024, Maurice Chen and editor Dougald McDonald, worked together to produce Chinese translation of Accidents in North American Climbing. Allowing accident analysis to be more widespread.