Thursday 12 December 2013

Route Setting and the Competition!

Most people these days know what it's like to climb at a gym: grabbing those colourful little holds on steep overhanging walls.

This fall, the students from Project NOWE have been doing a ton of indoor climbing at the local gyms: Canmore's Elevation Place, Banff Center's Sally Borden Gym, and the University of Calgary.

The Banff Center's Sally Borden Gym has given our students an amazing 6-week program that included some excited activities. Highlights for the students included:
  • a day where the students actually got to set their own routes!
  • Morley Rocks Competition -- 20 routes of increasing difficulty were tracked on individual score sheets. Winners were: Japheth Kaquitts (Most Points), Mistie Rider (Most Attentive Belayer) and Sammy Wildman (Most Routes Attempted).

Mark explains to the students the correct techniques for mounting the plastic holds without damaging the wall structure or T-nuts. Students were careful to follow his instructions and did a great job of designing new bouldering problems, which were tagged and became problems for the public to try!

Here Japheth attempts the Competition's hardest route, Route 20, which was worth up to 200 points. Unfortunately nobody -- even Mr. Wolfe -- was able to make it to the top holds without a fall.

Japheth, struggling at the crux of Route 20
William creating a bouldering masterpiece.

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