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Stylish Dinosaur
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The other annoying thing about the local gym is that the fitness facilities are open 24/7 to members, but not the actual bouldering areas. Annoying because I've seen a lot of other small independent or coop bouldering gyms go ahead and allow 24-hour climbing access so clearly there's a solution to the potential insurance problem.
We looked at a house the other day that had a real nice rock retaining wall that I 100% was interested in for the home bouldering opportunities. Was like 25% over my budget but it was a really nice house and I considered it.
I've always thought the home climbing gym is one of those things that sounds better in theory than it actually is. You lose the social element and unless you pay someone to set routes for you, you have to do that work yourself or let the wall get stale. I guess you could build a moonboard or similar and crowdsource problems...but still very limiting.
A genuine StyFo gent would build a barn with a climbing gym. Stop being such a smalltimer
We looked at a house the other day that had a real nice rock retaining wall that I 100% was interested in for the home bouldering opportunities. Was like 25% over my budget but it was a really nice house and I considered it.
I've always thought the home climbing gym is one of those things that sounds better in theory than it actually is. You lose the social element and unless you pay someone to set routes for you, you have to do that work yourself or let the wall get stale. I guess you could build a moonboard or similar and crowdsource problems...but still very limiting.