Unit 12, Dock Road
Fourteen metres of wall, open before work and long after it
Bouldering, top rope and lead in a grain warehouse that stopped holding grain in 1994. Do the induction, get a card, climb whenever the doors are open.
- 14 m
- Rope wallTwenty-two lines, eight of them on auto-belay
- 4.5 m
- Boulder wallsSlab to forty-five degrees, matting throughout
- 190
- Problems upFont 3 to 7c, colour-coded by circuit
- 2
- Resets a weekTuesday and Thursday, a third of the wall each time
The building
A grain warehouse with holds bolted to it
The roof is eighteen metres at the ridge, which is why the rope wall is the height it is. We kept the steel, the loading door and the crane rail, and covered everything else in plywood. It is cold in February and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Bring a hoodie for the belay.
The walls
Four walls, and what each one is for
01
Boulder hall
Four and a half metres, no ropes, no partner needed. Six colour circuits from Font 3 upward, so there is always something at your grade.
02
Rope wall
Fourteen metres, twenty-two lines. Eight auto-belays for climbing alone; the rest are top rope and lead, both of which need a check.
03
Competition wall
Overhanging, twelve metres, kept for squad sessions and the winter league. Open to anyone leading Font 6c and above on Sunday afternoons.
04
Training room
Two systems boards, a spray wall, hangboards, rings and a set of weights. Included in every membership, not a separate gym.
Access
When the doors are open
- Monday to Friday
- 06:00 - 24:00
- Saturday
- 08:00 - 22:00
- Sunday
- 08:00 - 21:00
- Reset nightsTuesday and Thursday from 20:00 a third of the boulder hall is taped off while it is stripped and reset.
- Winter leagueFour Saturdays between November and February the competition wall is closed to general climbing from 13:00.
- ChristmasClosed on the 25th and 26th of December and on the 1st of January. Every other day of the year we open.
Last entry is an hour before closing. Inductions are not run in the last two hours of the day.
Nobody climbs here without the induction
Forty minutes, once, covering matting, falling, belaying and what the colours mean. After that the door card works whenever we are open.