In reply to Rob Davies:
As it says in the article:
> Somehow, climbers kept appearing to support the cause, this time in the style of loans to the CCC. With a month-long extension from Laurel’s owners, they scraped together enough to pay, and the cliff — and more debt than the CCC had ever seen — was theirs. The party would have to wait; they had loans to pay.
> Cobourn reached out to John Juraschek at the Access Fund, and together they sought out companies to help pay the debts. Big companies. He went to the Outdoor Retailer trade show, the biggest outdoor industry convention there is, to plead the case with old friends and suck up to new ones. REI jumped on board. So did a number of other brands: The North Face, Scarpa, Trango, Misty Mountain.
> Scraping nickels out of couch cushions and bigger grants out of those brand-new corporate friendships, the CCC made enough. In 2008, they paid off the last of the loans and celebrated with a kegger at Camp Merrie-Woode, right around the corner from Lonesome Valley.
Climbers lent them the money, they then got corporate and personal sponsorship to pay off the loans
