BOULDERFEST IS BACK
The biggest community climbing competition comes to Salt Lake on October 18 and 19!
Photo Album: Photos by @grey_jensen
Competition Results:
Live Stream:
Early bird registration: August 19 – October 3 | General registration: September 20 – October 18
Boulderfest is an electric, all-day community celebration featuring a youth and adult climbing competition, entertainment, music, food trucks, prize drawing, open finals, and community connection. It’s open to everyone, and the competition is geared for all climbers — from beginners to experts.
SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18TH
-Open Category Qualifier: 6:00pm – 9:00pm
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19TH
-USAC Youth Q.E.: 7:00am -10:00am
-Community Round 1: 10:30am – 1:30pm
-Community Round 2: 2:00pm – 5:00pm
-Prize Drawing/Food Trucks/Drinks: 5:30pm – 6:30pm
-Open Spectator Finals: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
-Awards – Community & Open Categories: 8:30pm
Want to Volunteer? Sign Up Here
WHAT'S HAPPENING
COMMUNITY COMP
Boulderfest is an all-levels climbing competition.
Whether you’ve been climbing for years, or it’s your first ever comp, you’ll find something fun and challenging for you to climb!
Categories: Recreational, Intermediate, Advanced
The climbing at Boulderfest is the absolute best of what Bouldering Project and our setting team has to offer.
Everyone Gets:
-Competitor Bag: including T-shirt, chalk, snack & more.
-First access to a full gym of our best boulders – some available one day only.
-Prize Drawing: $10K+ in prizes – Each boulder topped = one prize draw entry. We have incredible prizes from Yeti, Friction Labs, La Sportiva, Arc’teryx, Organic, and more
-Drink ticket and spectator entry into Open Finals
Top Three: In each category get a trophy and their entry fee back.
* Sandbaggers beware, we will be watching 👀
OPEN FINALS
The entire day culminates in an electric Open Finals competition with a $10,000 cash purse.
Divisions: Men, Women, Non-binary
*categories must have six registrants to run*
Pro climbers, local crushers, and incredible athletes compete to claim the title of Boulderfest ’24 champion! The winners take home the cash purse and bragging rights.
Cash Purses:
-1st: $1,500
-2nd: $1,000
-3rd: $550
-4th-6th: $100 each
SPONSORS
When you’re not climbing, check out some of the sponsor booths, food and beverage, games, and more!
USAC YOUTH
If you are participating in USA Climbing’s Youth QE portion of our event on Saturday morning, please visit the link below.
VOLUNTEER
It takes a village to run this competition! If you’d like to join us as a volunteer, check out the available options and sign up for one that suits you.