Hi, my name is Lydia and my partner Juniper had their van, which they have been living out of this past year, stolen last week.

Juniper is a core part of the climbing community at our home gym Stronghold Climb in DTLA, especially the BIPOC Climb The Gap community program, and has been widely recognized with their van! Juniper fell in love with climbing 10 ish years ago and it has bought them so much joy and community since then, whilst climbing outside has really helped them with managing their anxiety.

Additionally June is the first in their family to be accepted into a phD program, and was planning to carry out their program at Colorado State whilst living out of the van.

Unfortunately all of Juniper's climbing gear including several racks, harnesses, helmets, draws, slings, carabiners, belay devices, shoes, ropes and a crash pad were all in the van at the time it was stolen.

The local climbing community has already been so incredible raising awareness and on the look out for their van, that I wanted to ask for help replacing Juniper's climbing gear.

If it's $5 or $500 I know Juniper is already grateful for all of you!

Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions or queries.