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| - I really enjoy climbing here, and have been taking advantage of their monthly membership prices ($60/month). There are a lot of fun bouldering, top roping, and lead climbing routes. (Not that I'm anywhere near confident enough to try lead climbing yet!) The climbers are usually very friendly and helpful, I've gotten a lot of useful beta from helpful regulars!
This place does get super crowded on weekdays, especially after CCSD schools let out. I try to avoid those times, but it's not a terrible issue.
I enjoy spending a lot of time bouldering in the several smaller rooms upstairs, because they're usually really fun to work on, but also because I don't always feel safe in the downstairs room. There are some sketchy belaying habits present at this gym, and I have yet to see staff intervene or even seem to care. Even when my boyfriend brought a staff member's attention to a belayer routinely and completely taking their hand off the rope, the staff member neither intervened or acted concerned. There is a female staff member that last week was encouraging a lead climber and her belayer to take big risks, and I got to witness some pretty interesting swings and falls.
Does the gym smell like feet? Yep. It's a climbing gym. The bathrooms could also be nicer considering what the membership prices are, but I'm not worried about it. As far as the water fountain issue (the complete lack of one) goes, it's not super convenient, but it's not hard to remember to bring a liter or two of water to the gym. The staff is usually pretty friendly, I just really wish they were more concerned with climbers' safety.
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