Hey, this gym is amazing. It's a classic home-town gym. A crucial force in the sport which so often is overlooked in favor of massive urban gyms.
I'm a strong believer that gyms like this preserve a little bit of the heart of the sport.
This gym had a densely packed room of bouldering problems, pushing up to v9+ with some excellent setting.
I both saw a powerful, outdoor style v7 with hard crimp movements in a forced small box as well as a v7 forcing a heel-toe cam which immediately burst out into a double clutch coordination dyno. Both of them absolutely kicked my ass, strong recommend. They've done a wonderful job of fitting a wide range of creative, interesting setting into a small gym space.
On the second floor they have a full campus board set up, a "kids room" which doubles easily as a traverse section for warming up, cooling down or ARCing. And, to add beautiful insult to injury, they have a 7x10 mainline Kilter homeboard. Just hard as nails, scrunched moves on kilter holds. I desperately sweat my way through a few v6s which I can only imagine came from the addled minds of garage masochists.
I love the gym. I love talking to random folks who are clearly regulars and meet a stranger with immediate warmth.
Day passes are affordable and if you know what you are doing you can absolutely get a full session out of this gym. Unless you are max hanging 180 pounds and doing one arms in your warm up, there will be a creative interesting climb here for you to work on.
Go here. Support local gyms. Talk to the staff. Joke around with some regulars. Have a great time. (and if you are in Steamboat long term, become a regular!) read more