Gunks Climbers’ Coalition Sponsors
The Gunks Climbers’ Coalition is grateful to the wonderful people and companies who have donated goods and services to our organization. Here’s a list of GCC sponsors over the past year.
Please return the favor and support our sponsors with your business. Click on the logos to learn more about their sponsorship, view images, and find the link to their website.
If you or your business would like to donate goods or services to the Gunks Climbers’ Coalition for future fundraiser, or if we were bad and forgot to list your business and you’ve donated in the past year, please contact the GCC.
Click the link to see our sponsors from previous years.
Recent Gunks Climbers' Coalition Sponsors
(in random order)
Summit Journal
•Summit Journal is a biannual print magazine about rock climbing and its culture, chronicling the sport’s rich history while also charting its future.
Mustangs
•Mustangs is a new bouldering gym in Kingston, NY, with top-notch bouldering, 9000 square feet, adjustable 12x12 tension board 2, strength training equipment, and space to chill, work and relax.
Gunks Guides
•Gunks Guides offer expert-led outdoor adventures in the Gunks, Catskills, and beyond. Specializing in rock climbing, ice climbing, hiking and custom outdoor experiences.
The Gardiner Bakehouse
•The Gardiner Bakehouse makes all of their hand-crafted breads and pastries daily and they are baked on-site. They take no shortcuts, so they can provide you with the most flavorful and beautiful loaves and the most delicate pastries!
Alpine Logic
•Alpine Logic provides custom mountain adventures with IFMGA guide Silas Rossi - at the Gunks and beyond.
Thin Man Brewery
•Thin Man Brewery is a craft beer business based in Buffalo, NY. Through independent and collaborative innovation, Thin Man Brewery works to provide Buffalo with a diverse portfolio of beers that emulate current beer trends, old world styles, and cutting edge brewing techniques.
The Disgruntled Chef
•Chefs James Frank and Danielle Goodreau, set up this market and cafe in the heart of Gardiner. With decades of experience cooking in some of the finest restaurants, scratch baking and freshly prepared dishes are a mainstay.
Arc’teryx
•Arc'teryx is a high performance outdoor equipment company known for leading innovations in climbing, skiing and alpine technologies.
AAC Gunks Campground
•The AAC Gunks Campground has bathrooms, showers, communal fire pits, wifi, and both walk-in and drive-in sites, located at 953 Route 299, Gardiner, NY, with 55 sites on 50 acres: 26 drive-in sites and 24 walk-ins and 5 vehicle sites.
Matt Logan, Artist
•Matt Logan is on the GCC Board and makes beautiful linocut prints inspired by the Gunks.
Black Diamond
•Black Diamond is committed to designing and engineering the most innovative mountain equipment in the world.
Advanced Rockcraft
•Advanced Rockcraft LLC offers unparalleled guidance and instruction of patrons through mountainous terrain, particularly technical rock climbing. Advanced Rockcraft also coaches climbers in developing their technical, physical and mental prowess on the cliffs.
Rise Outside
•Rise Outside offers outdoor education and guided experiences on rock, ice, trail, and anywhere we connect with nature -- creating mentorship opportunities for diverse outdoor leaders and funds programming for groups who have traditionally encountered barriers to realizing their potential outside.
Athletic Brewing Company
•At Athletic Brewing, we are pioneering a craft beer revolution. We believe you shouldn’t have to sacrifice your ability to be healthy, active, and at your best to enjoy great beer - so we created our innovative lineup of refreshing, non-alcoholic beers.
Chris Duca
•Chris Duca is a local artist and climber, who contributed his original illustrations of the Gunks to the GCC Online Raffles.
Mountain Brauhaus Restaurant
•Mountain Brauhaus has a tradition of 65 years serving authentic German cuisine, while presenting varied options for the contemporary diner — including vegan specials, as well as adventurous combinations of specialty ingredients and fresh local harvests.
Ridge Tea & Spice Shop
•The Ridge is a climber-owned tea and coffee shop in New Paltz. The Ridge serves homemade sparkling iced teas, matcha, and locally roasted espresso lattes. Choose from 60 loose leaf teas and 70 spices in bulk to take home.
Minnewaska Lodge
•Minnewaska Lodge is where individuals and groups attain higher levels of consciousness, connectedness, serenity and adventure. It is an holistic experience, encompassing mind, body and spirit.
Alpine Endeavors
•Alpine Endeavors LLC is comprised of experienced, passionate climbers who are trained guides and instructors and offers climbing instruction and guiding to climbers of all ability levels.
Patagonia
•Patagonia grew out of a small company that made tools for climbers Alpinism remains at the heart of a worldwide business that still makes clothes for climbing – as well as for skiing, snowboarding, surfing, fly fishing, paddling and trail running.
BC’s New Paltz Climbing Gym
•BC's New Paltz Climbing Gym is a center for the rich climbing community based around the Gunks. BC's is the local spot for experienced climbers to meet partners, make friends, and enjoy the community our sport creates.
Vultaggio Studios
•Chris Vultaggio's adventure photography and writing has been featured by National Geographic online, Rock and Ice, Climbing magazine, and maintains a global base of Fortune 500 clients including BMW, Anheuser Busch inBev, and major financial institutions. Chris is also on the board of directors of the Gunks Climbers' Coaltion.
Stone Ridge Spirits & Wine
•Stone Ridge Spirits & Wine feature an eclectic mix of Old World, Domestic, Natural, Organic, and Artisanal wines from esteemed and independent vineyard and wine makers.
Hudson Whiskey at Tuthilltown Spirits Distillery
•Located in Gardiner NY and co-founded by climber Ralph Erenzo, Hudson Whiskey at the Tuthilltown Spirits Distillery uses high-quality grain from local family farmers. Whiskey made bold,
yet refined; artful and unapologetic.
The Gravity Vault
•The Gravity Vault has many locations in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, including Poughkeepsie, NY, serving the Gunks climbing community. Also expanding to California, Texas and Virginia!
Gunks Apps
•Gunks Apps provides the Gunks+ app for iPhone and Android, and digital guidebooks for the Trapps, Nears, and Peter's Kill rock climbing cliffs and boulders in the Shawangunks of New York and much more.
Mohonk Preserve
•As New York's largest nonprofit nature preserve and the home of Gunks climbing, the Mohonk Preserve protects and manages over 8,000 acres of mountain ridges, forests, fields, streams, ponds, and other unique and beautiful places with over 200,000 visitors annually.
Rock and Snow
•Specialists in Rock Climbing, Ice Climbing, Hiking and Cross-Country Skiing Since 1970. The local Rock Climbing shop for the Gunks.