The Ontario climbing season is winding down. There’s no better time to reflect on what’s happened this year. Here’s what we’ve been up to!

Fill out our 2025 Climber Survey NOW!

Our annual survey was launched earlier this month to help us learn more about the Ontario climbing community. The more we know about you as a climber, the better we can represent you!

Complete the survey by midnight on November 30th to be entered into a draw to win a free OAC T-shirt 👕

AGM Summary

The 2025 OAC AGM was held on November 5th. With OAC members joining from across the province, we held our elections for the Board of Directors. Congratulations to Mike Penney, Jeremy Fortier, and Jessica Best on being re-elected!

We also provided a recap on what we’ve been up to this year, and had guest speakers provide climbing access updates from across the province.

Miss the AGM? You can watch the full recording here!

2025 Bolt Fund Recap

This year we launched the OAC Bolt Fund to help offset the expense of maintaining existing routes. We received applications for reimbursement for gear on 71 routes across Ontario!

We’d like to send a big thank you to Crux Capital Corporation, who stepped up to fully fund our inaugural year of the Bolt Fund. Thank you to both Crux Capital and the routesetters who have put in the work to keep us safe ❤️

Conservation Halton Etiquette

Following the discovery of recently added hardware that were installed without proper permissions on land managed by Conservation Halton (CH), we’d like to remind the climbing community of proper etiquette at these crags.

The addition of any permanent climbing hardware, creation of new routes, or modification of existing routes (or altering of/tampering with existing hardware) is strictly prohibited without the express written consent of CH. Should you have recommendations on routes or hardware installation, please contact us (OAC). We will contact our partners at CH and discuss potential changes.

For more details, please read our post here.

Ontario Parks Update

In August, Ontario Parks put out a call for comments on ERO 019-8238 — an amendment to formally recognize rock climbing at Devil’s Glen. We asked the climbing community to make your voices heard - and WOW did you ever! We received about 700 clicks on our links to leave a comment. Thank you for taking action 🙏

We are still waiting to see what the outcome of the open commenting period is, but we will be sure to keep the community up to date when news becomes available.

Enjoy the coming winter season!

We’ve got our fingers crossed for a good ice season 🤞

Until then, keep your eyes peeled for the launch of our 2026 Ontario Crags Calendar 👀 We’ll have it in time for holiday gifting!