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| - This place is huge, clean, new, and has a ton (I think actually like 500?) of bouldering problems.
Context:
I was in town for CES and hadn't climbed in a week or so. I didn't think I'd get a chance to climb so didn't bring any stuff, but found a deal online that included rental gear (including chalk bag!) in the day pass.
Staff:
The guy who helped me out was super nice. I've never rented gear before so didn't really know what size shoe I wore in the rentals and couldn't quite figure out the alpine-ish rental harnesses. The whole staff was great -- friendly and attentive but not in an overwhelming way.
Gym:
The bathroom is clean and they don't allow you to wear climbing shoes inside, which is great (and I think the first gym I've been to that did this.) It makes a ton of sense so crap doesn't end up on the shoes and then on foot/hand holds.
The holds are all really clean and well textured (either well maintained, new, or a combination).
The roped stuff is pretty limited -- I think ~40 ft tall or so and only a small section of the gym but includes lead, top rope, and auto belays. Bouldering is where it's at here. There's slabby stuff, compression-y stuff, overhangs, traverses, and dynos on walls ranging from 10-20 feet. I think the only thing I missed was a real cave/roof section -- they had decently overhung routes but nothing really 90 degrees. Also no top outs but the floors are super padded and I never felt sketched out.
Minor thing -- the walls are glossy so you can't really smear (or maybe that was just user error on my part) so it was a different style of climbing than I'm used to..
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