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After 10 weeks of working in the depths of the church, The Crypt will be open for use on Saturday 28th February.

'The Crypt' is a dedicated bouldering area with over 250m of climbing surface.

Further details can be obtained from www.awesomewalls.co.uk

I hope you enjoy it!

Dave Douglas
AWCC.

In reply to Dave Douglas: Great news. All I need to do is to get strong enough to use it.

Andy F

In reply to andy farnell:

Don't worry Andy, we've set loads of easier ones for you!

Dave D.

In reply to Dave D: They'd better be easy... nothing less than V7 to warm up on.....




oops, thought I was Jamie for a second then

Andy F

In reply to Dave Douglas: oooh bother. it looks so interesting, but i cant lift my arm above my head, let alone go climbig. Anything easy for a one armed boulderer?!

In reply to ceri:

The easier routes on the muti-angled 36m traverse wall will proberly go 'one handed'! I'll try them later!

Dave D.

In reply to Dave Douglas:Will you be putting some proper routes on the spare space?

In reply to A Rocker:

And which bit of spare space would that be?
More leading walls may be going up over the summer!

Dave D

In reply to Dave D:
Some people are never happy!

The constant moaning about the quality of climbing walls on this forum is a damning indictment of the mentallity of modern climbers - never bloody satisfied.

I remember when the best wall in liverpool was in the YMCA - little small thing, sharp holds and the mats were crap, but it was state of the art! Or the uni wall, inset brickwork wall - great! people trained there and climbed 8a! People are spoilt now, walls are great compared to the way that they used to be.

In reply to Kev Wynne: do they still have the wall at the vernon sangster centre? it was a great wee bouldering wall.

In reply to Dave Douglas:

Perfect timing! Just finished a load of work and have some time (at last!) to get over there and try it out...

Got a lot of catching up to do (I think that even 'stairs direct' would present a challenge at the moment...)

Regards,

Carl

In reply to Dave Douglas: Yippee, will get myself over there soon

In reply to Dave Douglas:

Had a go in the Crypt today. Brilliant use of space and excellent problems across the grades. Congrats.
Any chance of Jamie resetting the other bouldering walls?

In reply to Dave Douglas: went down on saturday, didn't realise it was the first day it was open. All I can say is it's excellent, now I just need to get strong again.

In reply to Phenom anon:

The other bouldering areas will all be re-set soon. I hope to have on-line topos for all the bouldering and lead areas in the near future on our website www.awesomewalls.co.uk

Dave D
AWCC

In reply to Dave Douglas: Having been last night I've got to say I'm very chuffed that this is my local wall.

Top job Dave, my congratulations to all involved. It was packed last night, and a great atmosphere. The problems are excellent, just need more of them

Andy F

In reply to andy farnell:

Couldn't have put it better myself - was in there this afternoon and it rocks (unfortunately 'I' didn't so looks like I'll be spending a lot more time down there!)

Carl.

In reply to Dave Douglas: Finally made it down there yesterday. OW! Can hardly type, forearms like popeye and I still only managed about two of the problems. Absolutely fantastic. I'm off to the gym to get strong.

In reply to Kev Wynne:
I quite agree. I can't remember when the best walls in liverpool were the the YMCA Or the uni wall but I did used to use then and the netherton activity center wall as they were deserted. Then North West Face, the climbing house etc opened and they got even quieter (great). However the best training was to get on the H5 bus and travel to pex or cycle to frodsham, plus a strict regime of door frame pull ups (no finger doards then!). They were the days "when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe".... sorry my pipes gone out must dash

In reply to olddays: Have you heard the latest? Changing rooms at Awesome!!! Definitely, they are being built, as I speak, in the crypt.

In reply to Anonymous:

Yes, the changing rooms are now open for use.
We should also have shower/s and indoor toilets very soon.
The Crypt will be getting totally re-set next week I hope.

Dave D
AWCC
www.awesomewalls.co.uk

In reply to All:

The Crypt is now totally re-set with 40 new problems and over 120m of traversing to go at!

Dave D.
AWCC
www.awesomewalls.co.uk

In reply to Dave D:

Changing rooms - brilliant. So fed up with trying to keep all clothes off the wet floor outside while trying to change quick enough to avoid frostbite

In reply to Dave D:

Spooky!! Another climber called Dave Douglas. I will have to call myself Scottish Dave Douglas from now on.

Dave Douglas (from Yorkshire at present).

In reply to Stubbed Toe: or you could just get changed in the climbing wall.

In reply to Dave Douglas:

I've just started climbing again after like a year and a half break. I'm finding the crypt is great for getting myself strong and back into things again. Tried a couple of the new problems but not totally done any yet. Great job with the crypt anyway.