We had been planning to try to start climbing for a few months now. Finally we got the opportunity to try it for the first time here at the climbing wall.
We didn't know what to expect but we found this place right off of Penn Ave. and walked in. We were greeted at their front desk. They asked us if we ever climbed there before. I told them that this was our first time. So they had us go to another desk to fill out a waiver on some Ipads. Once we completed this we went back over to the front desk to pay. It was $24 for an all day pass for my wife and I o climb. Not bad and they offered to rent us climbing shoes too. We decided to use the shoes we came with. You can also buy some chalk to help with climbing if you would like. Helmets are offered free of charge too.
The Climbing Wall is a neat place. In the lobby there are some treadmills to warm up your body if you need to. There is a changing room in there too.
In another area of this place they have a high wall to climb up with rope and belays but you need to get certified for that and we weren't. We were trying bouldering today. Once we were ready a worker showed us around the bouldering area. He was really nice and did a good job introducing us to climbing.
Once he was done my wife and I went on for a little climbing adventure! We had a great time. It's complicated to describe but if you look at the pictures you can see there were a lot of different walls to climb on. Most of them were challenging and gave our bodies a great upper body workout. After a few hours of climbing we barely had any finger grip strength left.
It was great to encourage each other in climbing these wall challenges. Sometimes we fell and laughed and other times we made it up the wall and then posed for a victory picture! It was a great date/workout for us.
Some more experience climbers might have some critiques about the place but we enjoyed it and will be back again for more challenges. This made us more hungry to take climbing seriously now in the coming months and go for that climbing certification.
Overall it was a great day at the climbing wall for us. The workers were nice, it's safe to climb if your not being a moron, and it's a great place to challenge yourself. Happy Climbing!