The first of many indoor climbing gym tours

One of the things that made Climbfind famous quickly in the UK when we started 6 months ago is that we filmed short 2 minute tours of every indoor climbing centre we visited. You can find them all on my channel page:

http://www.youtube.com/user/jonathonclimbfind

This is the first of many many tours for the 2009 roadtrip and it was taken at the Cliffhanger Vancouver Climbing Gym:

What Climbfind does

As much as we would love to spend our whole road trip climbing in the sun, ultimately we will spend most of it promoting the site. One of our main duties is to demo it to people on our laptops. Here is the pitch we use to introduce it. If you like CF post this link onto your facebook profile or twitter to share it with your friends now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtLZcyPTaNY

We will be filming a few more of these as guides to how to best use the site. Hope you find it useful.

JK

Episode 1 of our Video Blog

Yesterday, May 9th, we arrived in Vancouver, BC. to begin our 6 month road trip. This is the video of our journey from London. I hope you like it, it's the first time I've ever edited video and I must admit, although it's not pro, I was pretty happy with MS Movie Maker and the way it turned out. Feedback most welcome.

Please email our blog's url to your friends (http://www.climbfind.com/2009-Climbfind-USA-Canada-Road-Trip) and feel free to embed the movie on your own blogs or facebook accounts. We intend to do an indepth tour on Squamish, BC Canada in the coming weeks.

We are currently looking for companies to supply us with kit for video gear reviews and wish to co-brand the movies with sponsors so get in touch if you know someone who might be interested.

Jonathon

Why this roadtrip & what you can expect

If you don't know already, the ultimate goal of Climbfind is to help you find someone to climb with on any given day ANYWHERE in the world. Climbfind is sort of like a niche couch-surfing community for climbers in that it is a resource for you to enchance your climbing social life by giving you access and an excuse to meet up with thousands of other climbers.

The site is just over 6 months old and has had a HUGE impact around the UK. To pass on this great service to the Canadian and American climbing communities, we decided the best way to spread the word was to pay visit.

We plan to be on the road for 3 to 6 month depending on how much support we get along the way and our goal is to grow the Climbfind community from 2,000 to 10,000 members.

This blog will be a mixture of videos on

- Famous climbing destinations
- Encounters with famous personalities in the climbing world
- Shameless cross promotion :)
- A few clips of random debauchery

Please click the links on the side of the blog to subscribe, add us on facebook and follow us on twitter.

See you soon,

Jon & Kev

We're Booked!!

We are flying from London, England to Vancouver, Canada on the 9th of May, here is the proof :)