The Mountain Alliance Climbing Wall was built at Watauga High School for the club's use and is the first structure of its kind in North Carolina. This summer, as many people know, Watauga High School will be moving to a new location and tearing down its old building. As posted earlier, Appalachian State University's alpine tower was moved to the site of the new high school for the use and benefit of Mountain Alliance. The alpine tower thus gives us an opportunity to recycle the climbing holds on our current climbing wall. 
On Saturday, February 20th, The Mountain Alliance staff and several of its student members got together to disassemble the climbing wall...
...and then load all of the leftover wood into Gus, Mountain Alliance's trusty bus. Once all of the wood is collected, Mountain Alliance is planning on selling the wood to benefit the organization. 
However, this job couldn't be finished in one afternoon! Despite the hard work of everyone participating,
the climbing wall was not completely taken down. There will be an additional climbing wall take-down trip planned for the near future. 
"This seemed like such a big task at the start, but with so many great people volunteering their help, it actually was a lot of fun!"-Allison Huckins, Mountain Alliance Staff
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