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The Alberta Climbing Association's season runs from October to March across gyms in Calgary and Edmonton, and Edmonton hosts the ice-climbing World Cup final and World Youth Championships in February 2027.
The Alberta Climbing Association (ACA) runs the province's competitions, and its 2026–27 schedule is split between Calgary and Edmonton, with the senior provincials in December and the youth provincials in February and March 2027. These are the dates published in October 2026: check the ACA schedule before you go.
Calgary hosted both senior national championships in February 2026: bouldering at Bolder Elevated on 12 and 13 February, with 158 climbers registered, and lead at CCC Rocky Mountain on 15 and 16 February, with 116. Climbing Escalade Canada called it the second-largest Senior Nationals since the COVID break. In October 2026 its calendar listed the 2027 Senior Nationals for 11–12 February (bouldering) and 14–15 February (lead), with venues still to be confirmed, and the Youth Lead Nationals at the Richmond Olympic Oval in BC on 24–25 May. The Youth Boulder Nationals, on 20–22 May 2027, were still open for bids from western Canada.
Sport climbing makes its Canada Games debut at the 2027 Canada Winter Games in Quebec City, with bouldering on 9 and 10 March and lead on 12 and 13 March 2027. Alberta held its selection camp at Bolder Elevated from 2 to 4 October 2026, with bouldering on the 2nd and lead on the 4th.
Edmonton is also on the ice-climbing world tour. It hosted the final of the 2025–26 UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup in Louise McKinney Riverfront Park, during the Ice Fest from 21 February to 1 March 2026, and the provisional 2026–27 calendar brings the World Cup final back on 25–27 February 2027, alongside the Ice Climbing World Youth Championships on 25–28 February. A World Cup planned for Calgary on 19–21 February 2027 has been postponed to 2028. Climb YEG, in the same park, offers dry-tooling year-round and ice climbing in winter. See climbing in Calgary and climbing in Edmonton for the cities' gyms.
The Ontario Climbing Federation's season runs from speed in Kingston in November to the youth provincials at Steel Peak, The Core, Gravity Hamilton and Hub Mississauga in spring 2027. Here are the dates and venues.
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Sport Climbing BC's season runs from Pop & Lock in Kelowna in October to the open provincials at the Richmond Olympic Oval in December, with speed events at The Boulders near Victoria and bouldering across Metro Vancouver.
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The FQME's Coupe Québec circuit visits gyms in Trois-Rivières, Quebec City and Greater Montréal this autumn, ahead of the Speed Nationals in Montréal in January and sport climbing's Canada Games debut in Quebec City in March 2027.
Joe Rushton