When I resurrected NEB back in 2014, my main goal (as it was when the site started on AOL back in 1999) was to connect the climbing community of the Northeast. With almost 1,500 followers on Instagram and over 600 members of our Facebook group the connection of the climbing community has far exceeded our goal. Personally, I have made many new friends and connections this year and look forward to more in 2016. A big thanks goes to Bryan Rafferty at Back Mattress Productions and Kai Webler for pumping out great videos on a regular basis. We look forward to promoting more of their great work in the coming year.

Looking at our site statistics for the past year, it is clear that everyone loves seeing video of strong locals sending classic boulder problems. Based on pageviews, these are the three most popular articles of 2015, all three of which feature the strongest climbers around sending some of the best in the U.S.