What is Summer of Strong?

If you're a climber in the Northeast, you know that summer poses all kinds of problems for getting stronger. Most of the time, it's too hot to climb, and when it's not too hot to climb, it's raining. The friction is almost universally bad, and clouds of mosquitoes haunt your every movement. The whole point of Summer of Strong is to set these problems aside and get stronger anyway.

The key is motivation. It's difficult to stay motivated by your lonesome, especially in the dead heat and humidity of summers in the Northeast. Better to join a group of like-minded maniacs and crush together!

The whole thing stems from a random Facebook status I put up one day:


I declare this to be the Summer of Strong! EVERYONE goes up one V-grade, or NO ONE gets candy!


People seemed to respond well, so I decided to run with it. Now there's this blarg and all the ridiculous insanity associated with it!