The Scratch Pad

Learn to hold your ice tools!

Comment "intro" for a direct booking link to our drytooling intro class!

The Scratch Pad
📍Bountiful, UT

Upcoming Events:
First Timer Friday - Oct 2, Oct 16, Nov 6 @ The Scratch Pad
Drytooling Intro Class - Oct 10, Nov 14 @ The Scratch Pad
Ice Season Opener - Nov 21 @ Momentum Millcreek
Link in Bio!

Youth Club every Tuesday and Thursday!
Open Climbing every Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat!

Know your tools, climb stronger!
Comment "intro" for a direct booking link to our drytooling intro class!

The Scratch Pad
📍Bountiful, UT

Upcoming Events:
First Timer Friday - Oct 2, Oct 16 @ The Scratch Pad
Drytooling Intro Class - Oct 10, Nov 14 @ The Scratch Pad
Link in Bio!

Youth Club every Tuesday and Thursday!
Open Climbing every Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat!

Thanks to the Jedi Knights that joined us last Saturday, we defeated the Empire as it came for The Scratch Pad!

It was a great competition, and we appreciate all that came out to compete and support!

The Scratch Pad
📍Bountiful, UT

Upcoming Events:
Drytooling Intro Class - Sept 12, Oct 10 @ The Scratch Pad
Link in Bio!

Youth Club every Tuesday and Thursday!
Open Climbing every Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat!

This Saturday!!!

Come join us as we take on the Empire at our Scratch
Wars drytooling competition at The Scratch Pad!
Competition starts at 9am on Saturday! Sign up
today!

The Scratch Pad
📍Bountiful, UT

We lost a truly great member of our climbing community last week.

Dan Christopherson passed away after his battle with cancer. For many of us at TSP, this loss is deeply personal. I had known Dan since high school. We were the same age, and over the years I watched him become an incredible climber, mentor, educator, friend, and one of those people who simply made the community around him better.

Dan was also part of the story of The Scratch Pad before there even was a Scratch Pad.

Before we had a name, before we knew whether we would ever open a gym to the public, we hosted our first drytooling and mixed climbing clinic on a small climbing wall in the back of a warehouse. Dan and his company, 12 Finger Outdoor Adventure, stepped in to help us make that first clinic happen.

Looking back now, that little event became one of the first steps toward what eventually grew into TSP.

And Dan helped simply because that was Dan.

If someone was excited about climbing, Dan was excited for them. If someone needed help, he helped. If someone wanted to learn, he taught. He was positive, psyched, generous with his time and knowledge, and genuinely supportive of the people around him.

Through 12 Finger Outdoor Adventure, Dan helped countless people experience the outdoors and learn to climb, ice climb, and adventure safely. He worked with youth, new climbers, and experienced climbers alike. His contribution wasn’t measured in grades climbed or summits reached nearly as much as it was in people—people who discovered something they loved because Dan took the time to share it with them.

Today, TSP has grown into a community neither of us could have imagined back then. And Dan has a piece of that story.

More importantly, he has a piece of the stories of so many people whose lives he touched along the way.

Thank you, Dan, for the climbs, the friendship, the enthusiasm, the generosity, and for believing in a little idea before it even had a name.

You helped us more than you probably ever knew.

Rest easy, friend. We’ll keep climbing. ❤️

📸 (Dustin Lyons)
Steve Lloyd

Come join us as we take on the Empire at our Scratch
Wars drytooling competition at The Scratch Pad!
Competition starts at 9am on August 29th! Sign up
today!

The Scratch Pad
📍Bountiful, UT

Do or do not... There is no try

Come join us as we take on the Empire at our Scratch Wars drytooling competition at The Scratch Pad!
Competition starts at 9am on August 29th! Sign up today!

The Scratch Pad
📍Bountiful, UT