PRG Spring Sandbag Fest

Spring Sandbag Climbing Festival
April 27, 2024
Presented by the Phoenix Rock Gym

The comp was limited to 70 competitors
39 Sponsors total - Awesome!!!
$60.00 to enter

Four Categories:
- Recreational   V0 - V2
- Intermediate   V1 - V4
- Advanced   V3 - V6
- Open   V6 and up
The top three competitors male and female in each category received a PRG competition ribbon. The open category also received cash.
Male and Female, 1st $200, 2nd $100, 3rd $50

3 hour competition: 6pm - 9pm Saturday
Award ceremony: 9pm - 10pm

Top 3 boulder problems climbed for score

Competitors receive a comp T-shirt, a competitor packet filled with coupons and stickers and mfg schwag. All 70 competitors received a raffle prize for participating, so everybody wins!!

12 Side Events: Participating in the side events gain extra raffle tickets for prizes. The fastest times on some of the side events also gained a prize.
- One Hand - ( Logan Ernst 10:51 seconds)
- Blindfold Route - ( Logan Ernst 16:15 seconds)
- Lord Of The Rings - ( Anthony Craig 16:45 seconds)
- Question Of Balance
- Iron Maiden
- Spinner Route - ( Nicholas Oxentenko 20:46 seconds)
- Two Person - ( Andrew Guerrero and Taylor Mortensen 20:45 seconds)
- Toss The Tape
- Sandbag Lift - Actual weight was 31.6 pounds. Tie score: ( Eva Wong and Ryker Monik guessed 30 pounds).
- Karabin Climbing Museum - Actual items amount was 136. ( Foster Burton guessed 135). (Closest without going over).
- Ninja Warrior Course
- Four Peaks Obstacle Course - ( Quentin Ernst 26:07 seconds)
Side Event raffles only included the competitors that entered that individual side event.

Comp Director - Joey Whitehead
Comp Artwork - Emma Brown
                       - Marty Karabin
                       - Stephanie Ruiz

Course setters:
- Joey Whitehead ( Lead course setter)
- Santiago Arias
- Emma Brown
- Steve Francheterre
- Marty Karabin
- Josh Kupfer
- Josh Ngo
- Cat Ruiz
- Stephanie Ruiz
- Derek Scott
- Carson Trickel
80 boulder problems were set

Sponsor booths at the Fest:
- Figure Eight Eco
- Add On Smoothies

Catered food - Gus’s New York Pizza

Media flyers made by Emma Brown
Media announcements by Derek Scott
T-Shirts designed by:
- Emma Brown
- Marty Karabin
Comp Ribbons made by Marty Karabin
Score card and graphs made by Joey Whitehead
SBS Recording and Audio

AZ Hiking Shack Cash Pad Raffle - First raffle ticket wins the Metolius crash pad. The second raffle ticket gets 1/2 the monies from the raffle tickets sold. The other 1/2 of the monies is donated to the Access Fund. A third ticket was drawn winning a three month pass to the Phoenix Rock Gym. Everybody can get into the Cash Pad raffle, competitors and spectators.
Cash Pad raffle final: $370 overall

Best overall score:
Male - Aiden Sulak
Female - Lea Jaramilla

Additional thanks to the PRG staff and volunteers that helped make this Climbing Fest totally awesome!!!