2025 Heart & Soul Climbing Competition

Since 2014, it's been our honor to organize and host the annual Heart & Soul Climbing Competition to raise money for the fight against cancer.

The 12th annual Heart & Soul Climbing Competition will be held on February 22nd, 2025 at the DBC's flagship Central Denver location. You won’t want to miss it! Heart & Soul is a fun, inclusive competition for climbers of all levels. Come try some cool boulder problems and support a worthy cause! Spectators are also welcome.

This will be our 6th year giving locally to the University of Colorado Cancer Center. Our goal for the 2025 donation is to advance cancer research through the Investigator-Initiated Trials Fund.

So far, each Heart & Soul has raised more and more money and we hope to continue that trend in 2025. We celebrated an exciting milestone when our event total surpassed $150k and we're looking to build on that! Without our amazing community of climbers, none of this would be possible. We’re so grateful to have you involved.

Event Schedule:

7:30am - Doors open and check-in & registration begins for Block 1

8:00am - Climbing begins for Block 1

11:00am - Climbing ends for Block 1

11:00am - Climbing begins for Block 2 (check-in & registration opens 10:30am)

2:00pm - Climbing ends for Block 2

2:00pm - Climbing begins for Block 3 (check-in & registration opens 1:30pm, OPEN competitors must compete in Block 1 or 2)

3:00pm - Finalists announced via Instagram

5:00pm - Climbing ends for Block 3

5:00pm - Isolation area for finalists opens

5:30pm - Raffle

6:00pm - Isolation area for finalists closes

7:00pm - Open Finals

8:30pm - Awards

Host or Publisher Denver Bouldering Club