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LOCAL CLIMBING ORGANIZATIONS ON KAYA

Access and sustainability is a core tenet of KAYA’s brand. We want KAYA to be a tool in every Local Climbing Organization’s kit, not a thorn in their side. Use KAYA to promote your events, alerts, and LCO to our network of climbers, ease the burden on volunteers by utilizing our competition scoring for fundraiser competitions, keep data for your crags up-to-date with pertinent access updates, and receive a share of the revenue generated by guides in your region.

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OUR PARTNERS

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WHAT OUR PARTNERS ARE SAYING

“Access Fund appreciates KAYA’s support for our mission to lead and inspire the climbing community toward sustainable access and conservation of the climbing environment. KAYA’s focus on climbing access and conservation in the gym space and outdoors helps build the climbing advocacy movement, and we are grateful for their partnership for years to come.”
— Heather Thorne, Access Fund Executive Director
 
 
 
“We love the way Kaya built their platform to incorporate information about access and stewardship. We can easily inform climbers of issues like parking, rockfall and nesting birds, attaching them to areas or specific climbs. As well as helpinging with messaging, Kaya donates a portion of all local guidebook sales to support our work. We’ve also used their platform to host competitions, allowing us to raise money and bring the community together.”
— Squamish Access Society
 
 
 
 
“Grateful for you all! Donations from guidebooks help us continue to improve our tool inventory, purchase materials, feed our volunteers, and more. Kaya has been gracious enough to donate raffle prizes for our Adopt a Crags in 2025, include us in discussions involving new guidebooks, and give us the ability to moderate access issues. We are so stoked for a couple of new guidebooks coming out for our area in 2026! Thanks for your partnership and collaboration!”
— Mid-Atlantic Climbers
 

Connect with climbers

KAYA is used by over 250 gyms across North America and by climbers across over 130 outdoor areas in our catalog. Communicating with climbers is a challenge for climbing organizations—utilize KAYA to reach climbers directly.

Reach climbers USING KAYA IN YOUR REGION

  • Stand out from the algorithm and junk mail by targeting climbers in your areas with push-notifications

  • Utilize our email list to send targeted event and access alerts

  • Host events directly within KAYA

  • Expand your reach through collaborative social media

Protecting our crags

Climbing is experiencing a rapid period of growth. We believe in the positive power this activity has to transform lives for the better, we know it has for us. We feel honored to make climbing in outdoor spaces more accessible, however, we want to be certain we are doing so responsibly. What does that mean?

EDUCATING CLIMBERS

  • Access Fund Climbers Pact Integration

  • LCO Partnerships

  • Accurate and up-to-date banners and alerts

  • Ensuring trail data is accurate

  • Communicating with land owners and managers

  • Promoting good ethics through our channels

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Stay on trail

As more climbers enjoy our climbing resources, it is essential to stay on trail to preserve the landscape, plant, and animal life of the crag. Trails in KAYA keep climbers from getting lost, and the brush from getting trampled.

Trail data:

  • Updates at the click of a button

  • Redirect traffic away from sensitive areas

  • Keeps climbers from getting lost

  • Reduces climber impact

 

Modern Moderation tools

We believe that knowledge is power, and that arming climbers with clear, unambiguous information about the status of their climbs and areas leads to better results than keeping things hush hush or word-of-mouth only.

EDUCATING CLIMBERS

  • Clearly represent access sensitive and closed areas

  • Make updates at a moment’s notice

  • Send push notifications for import alerts

  • Keep climbers safe and informed

  • Communicate on behalf of land owners and managers

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Promote your LCO

Many climbers don’t even know what an LCO is! Get in front of climbers and boost donations and memberships by being listed as the official stewardship organization for the crags in your region.

About the stewardship org tab

  • Link directly to your donation or membership page

  • Educate climbers about your organization

  • Reach climbers as they exploring the crag

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Host fundraising competitions

KAYA has been trusted to host competitions across the country such as the American Alpine Club’s Hueco Rock Rodeo, the Joshua Tree Royale Rumble, the SCC’s Float the Boat and Siege the Citadel, Joe’s Valley Coalitions Pump-a-Thon, and many more!

Benefits of hosting on kAYA

  • Eliminate the need for volunteer-calculated results

  • Reduce scorecard and mini-guide waste

  • Free access to guides for competitors

  • Customizable to nearly any format

  • Live scoring

OFFER MEMBERSHIP PERKS

Many LCOs and Access Fund offer special perks and incentives to their members. Unlock steep discounts on KAYA PRO for your supports as a bonus for their support.

Membership perks

  • Offer 30% off KAYA PRO to those who support your organization

  • Incentivize memberships and donations

  • Reward your existing donors

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REVENUE SHARING

We have a minimum 5% donation in place for every guidebook published on KAYA. Many authors graciously elect to donate up the full 50% author revenue share to their local climbing organization. In some cases, LCOs have themselves authored guides, or found climbers to author guides on their behalf. Climbers pay to access the data, and that payment goes directly back into sustaining the crag.

Earn a share of the revenue

  • Quarterly payments

  • More guides = more fundraising

  • 5% minimum donation

  • Your funds grow with the crags popularity

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Collaborative marketing

Expand your reach by collaborating on social media posts, sharing content from KAYA, or by tapping into our email contacts for climbers in your region.

Marketing opportunities

  • Share user-videos from climbs in your area

  • Collaborate on posts to reach a broader audience

  • Send emails to our audience in your region to expand impact

 
 

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