Benchmark Climbing

Reinvesting in our community looks like this 🙌

Fully adjustable Tension boards from Lemur Design - the mirror layout at our Berkeley gym and the spray layout in SF. Time to kick that summer training into high gear 💪

Swing by the gyms today to enjoy these epic new toys! It's never been easier to join with our new customer promo - sign up for a recurring two week membership and get your first two weeks for the price of a single day pass 🙌

📸 Eric Bissell
Lemur Design
Tension Climbing

🄱🄰🅃🅃🄻🄴 🅁🄾🅈🄰🄻🄴 Bouldering League is back! 🤯⁣
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The highly anticipated return of our summer bouldering league!⁣ ☀️

What is a Bouldering League?⁣
A fun way to push yourself and meet new friends via team based bouldering competition, taking place over the course of five weeks!

Separate leagues will run concurrently at both Benchmark locations so everyone can join in on the fun! 🤗
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Get psyched for five weeks of specially set bouldering league problems starting July 16th in SF! ⁣🎉
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All Benchmark members are encouraged to participate free of charge! Non-member participants will need to pay a discounted $20 day pass on each visit.⁣
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Prizes for winning teams courtesy of michelle 🍯❄️ H I T O R I I ꓥⱯꓤꓨIꓕNⱯ ONCRUX Topo Designs San Francisco 🎁🔥
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All participants must sign up via link in bio ‼️

𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝟑 Bouldering Competition ⁣🦍

🗓️ Saturday April 4th at
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San Francisco’s best bouldering comp series is back and better than ever! Get psyched for a mind-blowing redpoint round full of epic boulders and guaranteed fun for everyone! 🥳

Following the redpoint, stick around to watch the top 5 open competitors from each gender category go head to head in the onsight finals round! And for the first time, we’re turning up the stakes with a $2000 cash purse for top 3 open finishers in each gender category! 🤑
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Redpoint round starts 11am, see third slide for detailed schedule.

Difficulty Categories: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and Open

Gender Categories: Women / Men / Non-Binary

Winners in each category will take home prizes! 🎁 ⁣
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Stick around to see what we have in store for finals starting at 3:30pm! You won’t want to miss the show 👀
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The top 5 open competitors from each gender category will advance to finals based on their redpoint round scores. Open podium will receive a cash prize 💰

Entry Fees: ⁣
- Free for Benchmark SF members ⁣
- $40 for non-members ⁣
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Visit the link in our bio to buy tickets (non-members) and fill out the athlete registration form (both members and non-members). ☝️ ⁣
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⚠️ Reminder: All competitors must complete the athlete registration form (link in bio) to compete. ⚠️ ⁣
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Special thanks to our sponsors and 🙏 ⁣

February climbing clinics!

Learn more at: benchmarkclimbing.com/climbing-classes-1

Y’all really showed up 🙌

We wanted to share a quick update from Friday — and to say thank you.

Going into the day, we were honestly a little nervous. Fridays are usually slow, and we worried we might not raise enough to make the donation feel meaningful.

Instead, we had 35% more check-ins than a typical Friday, and raised $3,260 to donate to immigrant support organizations.

We’re grateful for our members and the broader Bay Area climbing community — for coming out, for climbing with intention, and for supporting immigrants — many of y’alls took pay-what-you-can to a higher level and gave extra on top of a day pass or a shirt to help support the cause!

Friday reminded us why community spaces matter, and why we believe so strongly in building and protecting them together. This work will never end, so let’s keep showing up for one another!

With love,
Benchmark Climbing

First time member at Benchmark? This one’s for you 🫶

Sign up for our recurring Two Week Membership with no initiation fee and get 40% off your first billing cycle + free rental shoes. That’s two weeks of unlimited climbing for $30 — yep, the cost of a single day pass.

This membership auto-renews. Cancel anytime. Promo pricing ends after the first billing cycle, after that it's $50 every two weeks with a guest pass!

There's no better time to get climbing! Head to either gym to sign up today and join the Benchmark community!

We at Benchmark Climbing are immigrants or children of immigrants, and many of our staff and community share similar stories. Recent events involving immigration enforcement — including tragedies that have deeply harmed families and communities — have shaken us. We are grieving, and we stand with those impacted.

As a community space built around healing and support, we asked ourselves how to truly live Benchmark’s value of positive progression. We considered closing for the general strike, but ultimately felt it was important to bear the financial impact ourselves rather than pass that cost on to staff or members.

Climbing is more than a sport — for many people it’s essential to physical and mental health. Benchmark is a safe, inclusive space for people of all backgrounds, and we want it to remain available to anyone who needs it.

This Friday, January 30, our gyms will remain open.

All proceeds — from day passes, coaching, youth programs, retail, food, and beverages — will be donated to the Immigration Institute of the Bay Area and Unidos MN. We chose these organizations because they provide both direct legal support to immigrants locally and community-based support at the grassroots level for immigrant families in Minnesota.

We will also host an on-site station to help people donate, contact representatives, and support immigrant communities and due process.

We are offering pay-what-you-can day passes for anyone who supports or participates in protests, or who has donated to immigration-focused mutual aid groups or nonprofits.

Community spaces exist so we can decide together what kind of world we want to live in. Thank you for helping make Benchmark a home for all.

With love,
Benchmark Climbing

creating together. the drop.

built through shared values.
released with intention.

the tèmi × benchmark collaboration tee goes live at 5pm today.

a limited-run piece shaped by community-first spaces. local craft. a belief that progress is something you practice. not something you rush.

only 40 tees available at each benchmark location.
vintage tèmi logos.
no reprints.
once they’re gone. they’re gone.

what’s your adventure?

creating positive progression together.

a climbing gym isn’t just walls and holds.
it’s people. showing up. falling off. trying again.

benchmark has always centered community first.
quality over quantity.
thoughtful route setting over massive square footage.
progression measured in growth. not scale.

that philosophy mirrors Tèmi.

people. place. purpose.
human-made. place-based. intentionally designed.

these shirts are meant to live where progress happens.
chalked hands. shared beta. quiet wins.

positive progression isn’t just how you climb.
it’s how you build together.

dropping 1/12. only at benchmark.

tèmi × benchmark
creating together.