We put up 15 new routes this week in the gym. Today, Dallas (D-tron or Dally as we all now want to rename him) stitched up a nice resistance rig on the right side of tsumani, which will probably fall in the 12+ category. It’s a great trainer! Look for the pink tape. TJ also put up a nice techy 11- route under one of the auto belays. Really fun and wandery – check it out to the left of the thunderball wall. Get ready to mantle!
There are currently a total of 108 routes up in the gym, 42 of which are in the expansion. The steep bouldering cave was reset this past week as well and we did some fill-in on the lower advanced problems, which we were lacking. It’s a stiff set, but there’s some creative stuff up. Check out Sean Drolet’s light blue compression sloper fest if you’re pushing the elite-/elite grade, it’s gotten some rave reviews.
Also – other exciting news in the office today – two of our employees have recently learned that they made it into hueco guide training. Congrats to Jen Herling and Steph Marvez. That’s practically more exciting than winning a brand new car. We’ll be demanding many trips from you two in hueco! I have attached below a picture of the two of them, spontaneously caught in the height of their excitement.
Next week we have the regional SCS competition held here on Saturday, May 11th. We, unfortunately, have to close the expansion half of the gym for setting, beginning on wednesday may 8th. The entire gym will be closed on Friday and Saturday, May 10-11th. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
On a good note, however, we’ll have loads of kid-sized routes for our climbing teams to train on afterwards. Good luck to all the competitors!
We also plan on filling in immediately post comp, so there will be a lot of new routes (adult-friendly) come in and try on sunday.
-Brent Ng, Head Routesetter