30th Annual Tollhouse Face-Off, October 19-21, 2018

[Climberdude]

Climbers,

Yes, it is that time of year again. Clear your calendars, clear your schedulers, tell the folks you are unavailable that weekend. The 30th Annual Tollhouse Face-Off will take place at Tollhouse Rock, above Tollhouse, CA (outside of Fresno/Clovis) on the weekend of October 19-21. There will probably be night climbing. Some people will be arriving on Friday, October 19 for night climbing. Weather permitting, we will be camping at the top of Tollhouse Rock at Cap Rock. In the event of bad weather, activities will take place at Tollhouse Road and Boroughs Mountain Road. We hope to see some Bay Area, Sacramento area, and Southern California climbers.

The event will be a benefit for American Safe Climbing Association. T-shirts probably will be available for purchase. There will be a raffle on Saturday around 5 pm. So far we have raffle prizes from Columbia, but will have others.  Empty your wallets and purses for a good cause.

If planning on camping, bring water and remember that likely only propane or gas stoves with a California Fire Permit are allowed. Get the free fire permit from any Forest Service office. Unless you have a 4WD with medium to high clearance, plan on a 1/3 mile hike uphill from the parking spot to the camping spot. I also encourage people coming for the day to car pool since parking may be limited. Do not block the dirt road since this is a driveway and a fire access road. See Mountain Project or the Tollhouse Rock/Squarenail guidebook for details on how to get to the location.

I definitely need volunteers to help make this event happen. Volunteers will be needed to contact potential donors for raffle prizes, post announcements at gyms, set up on Friday (especially), and sell raffle tickets. Please contact me at markf eight four five at gee mail.com (replace written numbers with the actual number and remember Googles e-mail address format). Thanks.

Mark

[DaveyTree]

Once again it falls on the 3rd weekend in October, the opening weekend of duck season

[susan]

We have a work-related trade show that interferes with that weekend though maybe there's a chance...

Wow - 30 years! Sounds like great fun.

[Climberdude]

The event celebrates climbing at Tollhouse Rock and benefits the America Safe Climbing Association, which has helped sponsor bolt replacement at Tollhouse Rock and many other crags in the area.  Yes, it has been going on for about 30 years although some old-timers tell me that perhaps a few early years had events that did not happen every year.  Even the Volume 1 SEKI guidebook mentions the Tollhouse Face-Off.  Although the event goes through the entire weekend with a raffle and perhaps a live auction on Saturday evening, we welcome people to come for just a day if they want, even Sunday.  We usually need help on Sunday packing up around 4 - 6 pm.  We will have limited edition event-specific T-shirts that sell out fast.  Those who were climbing in 1976 might recognize the image on this year's T-shirt.

Sue and John, sorry about the event being during your trade show.  Sorry the event is at the opening of duck season.  Perhaps Fish & Game should better plan next year.

[susan]

Wonder how the 30th event went. Hope it was a great time!

[donutnational]

It was good. I might be prejudiced since I won a new rope in the raffle. Well organized, a keg of beer and I got see some old friends. The smog set was pretty good too.

[susan]

Wow that’s a huge score! Ha, I like that, smogset.

[DaveyTree]

I was bummed to have to miss the Face Off. Anyone go?