Filling the void Climbers geek out over new gym, new sport routes by Matthew Frank Missoula’s rock-climbing community lost an anchor back in 2007 when the Rock Garden, a climbing gym on East Broadway, cratered. The University of Montana’s rock wall became the city’s one and only, but climbers without a Griz Card were stonewalled. That is, until last fall. A new climbing gym called Freestone opened on the
Westside, again giving climbers the “community center,” as one frequenter calls it, that had been sorely missed. Now there’s more good news for local rock jocks: the emergence of a new climbing destination in the Bitterroots, at Mill Creek’s dramatic North Rim. The spot was created over the last few years by a handful of veteran climbing enthusiasts who saw a need for area