Owners/Managers
Brad and Gianna Leavers are a young, South Lake Tahoe local couple who have been recreating in Tahoe their whole lives, and since 2013 are happy to call this place home.
Brad grew up in Redding, CA and quickly moved to Mt. Shasta to attend Collage of the Siskiyous fire program and learn to ski. He spent the next ten years working across Northern California with Cal Fire, including at Truckee Station 50. After learning to climb in Mt. Shasta he moved Sacramento to be closer to the excellent climbing and skiing in Tahoe and all across the Sierras.
Gianna grew up in Placerville, CA and has skied in Tahoe since she was a little girl. She went to college at UC Davis where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and also discovered rock climbing for the first time. She has been climbing in Tahoe and all over California for the last six years. She also spent the five years that she lived in Davis working at the local climbing gym, Rocknasium.
Brad and Gianna met in Davis, and continued to travel to Tahoe together frequently to climb and ski. They moved to South Lake Tahoe together in 2013 and got married at Zephyr Cover two years later.
When Brad and Gianna moved to Tahoe they asked themselves the same question local climbers have been asking themselves for years….how is there not a climbing gym here? After thinking about it for a couple years, they decided to take the leap and build a brand new climbing gym. From day one, Brad and Gianna have had the support of the community and that still remains the driving force behind Blue Granite Climbing Gym.
The vision for Blue Granite is to provide a place for community members to recreate, socialize, and foster long-lasting climbing partnerships and friendships. It will provide a safe place for local youth to participate in fun and healthy activities. The gym will provide programs for local families to interact and engage in an active lifestyle together.