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)
Hudson Valley Wine Market
•Bringing you a full-bodied selection of quality wine and spirits, the Hudson Valley Wine Market is located in Gardiner.
Karma Road
•Karma Road is a local favorite for fresh, organic, delicious foods for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack time. Their rotating menu is lovingly built out of fresh, organic ingredients from the plant kingdom. Located at 11 Main Street in New Paltz.
Bubbe’s Deli & Grocery
•Bubbe's Deli & Grocery, at the intersection of Rt 299 and Rt 44/55, proudly serves the greater Gardiner / New Paltz area with homemade sandwiches, salads, and side dishes.
Tweefontein Herb Farm
•Tweefontein Herb Farm provides all natural, organic products straight from mother earth to you. Tweefontein has been an operational herb farm since early the early 80's and provides New York City Green Markets with high quality herbal teas and products.
BaseCamp
•BaseCamp is the Shawangunk's hub for outdoor gear, nutrition, cycling, climbing, exploring, adventure, and culture — a full-service independent adventure emporium, tap room, and outdoor active-lifestyle-nutrition pitstop.
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.
Talisman Shops
•Talisman Shops makes casually romantic jewelry & decorative objects for the garden and home.
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.
Conservation Alliance
•The Conservation Alliance's mission is to engage businesses to fund and partner with organizations to protect wild places for their habitat and recreation values.
Access Fund
•Access Fund is a nonprofit advocacy organization that leads and inspires the climbing community toward sustainable access and conservation of the climbing environment.
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 illustration of High Exposure to the GCC Raffle.
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.
La Sportiva
•La Sportiva's mission is to bring you the best technical products to explore the outdoors.
Petzl
•Petzl designs tools and solutions to enable athletes and professionals to get involved, day and night, in the most inaccessible environments.
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.
BCMG
•Based in NYC, TJ and BCMG aim to provide professional instruction and guided climbing for new and experienced climbers alike.
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.
Sterling Rope
•Sterling Rope designs and produces the world’s finest ropes, hardware and gear that enable climbers to confront challenging conditions.
Bacchus Restaurant
•Bacchus is a restaurant and brewery in New Paltz, NY with hearty food, tasty beer & wine, a billiards room, live music, and a warm, neighborly atmosphere.
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.
REI
•A member-owned co-op since 1938, REI (Recreational Equipment Inc.) sells sporting goods, camping gear, travel equipment, and clothing.
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 Wine & Spirits
•For over 22 years, Stone Ridge Wine & Spirits has provided the best selection of wines and craft spirits in the area, with many of their products coming from right here in the Hudson Valley.
Tuthilltown Spirits
•Located in Gardiner NY and co-founded by climber Ralph Erenzo, Tuthilltown distillers are bringing back traditional batch-distilled spirits. The Tuthilltown Spirits line of products includes gin, vodkas, whiskeys, rum, eau de vie, brandy, liqueurs, and infusions.
Jetboil
•Jetboil builds super-dependable stoves & systems that pack light, set up quick, and achieve rapid boils in minutes
The Gravity Vault
•The Gravity Vault began in 2005 with a climbing gym in Upper Saddle River, NJ, followed by Chatham, NJ. They now have many locations in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, including Poughkeepsie, NY, serving the Gunks climbing community.
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 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.