New climbing gym coming to Louisville, CO

Looks like a new gym coming to Louisville, CO. Definitely a good option for folks between Denver and Boulder, sounds like it should open later this year.
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Just make sure there are f$#&ing parking spots and people will come.

Hopefully It won't be a problem. The area that they're building at is fairly open with lots of street parking. But who knows. As long as its better than Movement Boulder parking.

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It was only a matter of time!

I wonder when Longmont will get a gym. Seems like a good business opportunity? It might serve FoCo, Loveland, Greeley, Longmont well seeing as there is a dearth of modern gyms north of Boulder.

Do you guys know the height? I hope it will be steeper that Earth Treks.

I think there was a thread a year ago about this...

From FB: The main wall will be around 45' vertical. Most of the gym will be around 40'.

I believe Movement Boulder is 38', Denver 50', Earth Treks in between the 2.

It doesn't look crazy steep, but much better than the Earth Treks wall angle. I'm not a fan of the rubber-shredding Walltopia surface, but maybe R&R will be happy w/ an even longer wait time.

Still, I think people put too much attention into the facility, when how it's run often makes a much larger difference.

reboot wrote: Still, I think people put too much attention into the facility, when how it's run often makes a much larger difference.

Agree with this completely. In particular, the route setting is crucial. You can turn a beautiful facility into a tendon wrecking crap hole with poor setting (e.g. places where the only way they know how to make a route hard is by making the moves big and the holds tiny....yeah, that's you Obi from NYC!!!). In contrast, you can turn an "older" facility into a great place to train if you have good setting (e.g. BRC). That said, if you have a good facility with good setting (and its run well too), then you have it all (e.g. Touchstone gyms in CA). The Louisville facility looks great, hopefully they can attract quality setters or at least a good chief setter who can dictate the norms and teach the underlings.

I'm not going to lie, I've climbed more than once with wholes in my shoes. It is good for getting stronger fingers :-) A nice staff but it takes me 15 sec to go by the front desk and no one wants to talk to me anyway. Routes setting makes a bigger difference.

They usually make those tiny guys 6 ft tall so it does come up to 45ft.

J. Albers wrote: Agree with this completely. In particular, the route setting is crucial. You can turn a beautiful facility into a tendon wrecking crap hole with poor setting (e.g. places where the only way they know how to make a route hard is by making the moves big and the holds tiny....yeah, that's you Obi from NYC!!!). In contrast, you can turn an "older" facility into a great place to train if you have good setting (e.g. BRC). That said, if you have a good facility with good setting (and its run well too), then you have it all (e.g. Touchstone gyms in CA). The Louisville facility looks great, hopefully they can attract quality setters or at least a good chief setter who can dictate the norms and teach the underlings.

Nice. I wasn't going to name names but my tendons are still suffering from the last time I climbed in Golden, and it was only a 12a

Talking about old facilities, I started climbing a long time a go at 59St in NYC.... Fun old times

I saw the signs for this. It's in the same industrial park where I work. Was said to be getting an indoor shooting range here as well but so far nothing.

Movement Boulder's Grey wall is World Cup competition qualified... which is 47 feet

I believe their height in Denver is a smidgen higher, like someone said above

With good routesetting and the proper wall angle, 50 feet can produce a lot of moves

Exciting! I'm in superior and so far if I want to climb without driving to boulder I have to use the wall at Lakeshore, which has not been shown the most love.

reboot wrote:I'm not a fan of the rubber-shredding Walltopia surface, but maybe R&R will be happy w/ an even longer wait time.

As for the surface, I've heard it will not be the same super-coarse texture.

reboot wrote:Still, I think people put too much attention into the facility, when how it's run often makes a much larger difference.

Yep. Route setting and rotation are key. Others factors are important as well, but those two drive it for me.

Looking forward to seeing Evo evolve, it's gonna be big. And have parking. And the locations great.

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Looks like they are still awaiting city permits in order to break ground. Hope the facility is finished before the indoor winter training season.

According to their Facebook page all permits are in hand & they are ready to break ground!!