Climber Credo T Shirt

3001CVC Jersey Tee, Heather Prism Mint

99% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton, 1% polyester, 32 singles, 4.2 oz. 

The Unisex Heather CVC Short Sleeve Tee is a versatile companion to our best-selling 3001 style. This updated essential features a crew neck, tailored fit. Crafted from our supremely soft, proprietary Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton, the Unisex Heather CVC Short Sleeve Tee is a daily basic designed with comfort in mind, with an ultra-smooth surface that is perfect for any of your preferred printing techniques.  

Yosemite National Park is recognized globally as the center of big wall climbing and has

consistently served as the proving ground for advancing climbing techniques and equipment,

while pushing the limits of what is humanly possible. For climbers—drawn by its wild spirit and

epic terrain, the challenge of climbing its vast granite faces or monolithic boulders, and the

camaraderie of kindred innovators and adventurers—Yosemite is so much more!

As a community, how we care for the areas in which we climb has a direct impact on the level

of protective regulation needed and the degree of access afforded to current and future

generations of climbers.

In a time when there are pressures to impose more top-down government regulation, we have

the power to come together as a community and embrace a set of shared ethics and values.

What was true in 1972 is still true today: “We believe the only way to ensure the climbing

experience for ourselves and future generations is to preserve (1) the vertical wilderness, and

(2) the adventure inherent in the experience.” (Yvon Chouinard and Tom Frost, 1972:

Chouinard Equipment Catalog)

As defined by the Wilderness Act of 1964, Wilderness “in contrast with those areas where

[humans] and [their] works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where

the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by [humans].” With nearly all of Yosemite

National Park designated as Wilderness, any route that ascends above roughly 200 feet off the

Valley floor or is located more than 200 feet from the Tioga Road in the high country falls into

this highest category of protection—where climbers can experience unconfined freedom and

adventure.

In collaboration with a diverse group of Yosemite climbers and with input from NPS Climbing

Rangers, the Yosemite Climbing Association (YCA) has developed the following community

values, based on a renewed vision of the Clean Climbing Manifesto advocated by Yvon

Chouinard and his colleagues in 1972, where climbers share a responsibility to show restraint

in the wilderness, to respect Indigenous rights, to protect wildlife, and to be a voice against

threats to the places we climb.

The intention of the Climber’s Credo is to provide the Yosemite climbing community and land

managers with a powerful tool to promote Yosemite’s minimum impact climbing ethics and

inspire the following critical values to protect the Park’s Wilderness and climbing culture.