By E Johnson
From Boulder, CO
Apr 20, 2008
| I've read on several websites that there will be a new climbing gym in Boulder, supposedly with 14,000 square feet of climbing area. The proposed name is Movement Fitness Club and the person behind the project is routesetter/US Climbing co-owner Mike Moulter.
Anyone have any other info? Like location, opening date, route height?
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By L G
From Boulder, CO
Apr 20, 2008
| E Johnson wrote: I've read on several websites that there will be a new climbing gym in Boulder... Anyone have any other info?
Mike doesn't appear on MP under an obvious name. Anyone know Mike? | |
By Cameron Cross
Apr 21, 2008
| Hmmm... no one seems to know anything. I'm curious as well. There has to be a Boulder local that knows the scoop. | |
By James Beissel
From Boulder, CO
Apr 22, 2008
| If you want to believe the rumor mill, it is going in near Iris and Diagonal, will have 65'+ walls, a 15' roof crack, and is expecting to open in August. | |
By Doug Lintz
From Lincoln, NE
Apr 22, 2008
| I heard they'll have a no bolting policy, trad only.
d. | |
By James Beissel
From Boulder, CO
Apr 22, 2008
| Haha! All of the handholds are placed on lead, too. | |
By John Langston
Apr 22, 2008
| I would have serious ethical issues with a gym that doesn't set routes on lead.
This isn't Boulder Canyon!!! | |
By E Johnson
From Boulder, CO
Apr 22, 2008
| You all crack me up. Hope James' first post is right! (or are you yanking my chain?) | |
By SAL
From broomdigiddy
Apr 22, 2008
| FYI. Mikes last name is spelled Moelter. | |
By MarkG
From Goretex-Vortex, CO
Apr 22, 2008
| 2845 (or so) Valmont St. I heard they're tearing down an existing building and putting up a new structure. | |
By Mark Nelson
From Coniferous, CO
Apr 22, 2008
| I heard this being the first gym with no colored tape allowed?? | |
By Richard Radcliffe
From Louisville, CO
Apr 22, 2008
| Mark Nelson wrote: I heard this being the first gym with no colored tape allowed??
No chalk either. And you'll have to rappel from the anchors, not get lowered. | |
By James Beissel
From Boulder, CO
Apr 22, 2008
| 2845 Valmont confirmed. I am no longer skeptical of the rumors. | |
By Gilroy
From Boulderado
Apr 22, 2008
| Why do you think they would locate a new gym around the corner from the established BRC? | |
By E Johnson
From Boulder, CO
Apr 22, 2008
| They must've tried to climb at BRC on winter weeknight! | |
By Gilroy
From Boulderado
Apr 22, 2008
| E Johnson wrote: They must've tried to climb at BRC on winter weeknight!
Right! Or a cold rainy, Sunday @ noon....
Are there really that many times that the BRC is overcrowded? Can that be the main reason: if the parking is full or the lead ropes all out, do you just head over to the new place? | |
By E Johnson
From Boulder, CO
Apr 22, 2008
| If they really open in August (hard to believe) and with my BRC membership expiring in September, I would certainly give them a try.
What I don't get is BRC's $17 entrance fee when gyms with twice the climbing square footage and higher walls, in the Bay Area no less, charge the same thing... How can real estate/overhead be more expensive here? | |
By Tim Stich
From Colorado Springs, Colorado
Apr 23, 2008
| Hmmmm. A new gym in a small town with lots of other gyms? Sounds like they will need something different to stand out. How about...
A super delux adjustable crack machine? Three six foot sections, each independently adjustable by anyone willing to go up and crank it. Work on fingers, hands, fists, off-hands, and wide all in one sesh. No one offers that in the Front Range area yet as far as I know. If the crack is really good, former DC mayor Marion Barry might even get a membership. | |
By Jed Pointer
From Boulder, CO
Apr 23, 2008
| The new gym will probably fill, too. 17 bucks? They should double that. It's about supply and demand. | |
By Gilroy
From Boulderado
Apr 23, 2008
| Jed Pointer wrote: The new gym will probably fill, too. 17 bucks? They should double that. It's about supply and demand.
I certainly understand a business has to succeed but please, don't encourage them to exceed the BRC on day entry fees! :^)
I hope they offer a dirtbag discount in off-hours for us under-employed types. Maybe I can wash the holds to earn a pass? | |
By MarkG
From Goretex-Vortex, CO
Apr 23, 2008
| I'm pretty skeptical it will open in August... word is they're still working on funding. | |
By Chris Sheridan
From Boulder, CO
May 3, 2008
| I heard their going to have indoor deep water soloing! | |
By coop
From Golden, CO
May 4, 2008
| Somebody open a gym in the Golden/Lakewood area please! | |
By Mike Lane
From Centennial, CO
May 4, 2008
| coop wrote: Somebody open a gym in the Golden/Lakewood area please!
Coop: would you drive to C-470 and Santa Fe? (10 min. from Golden).
Large commercial zone there, ideal for a 50' building. Since a climbing gym outside of the high-density climber population of Boulder would require a large base of suburban kids; this place would draw from all of Highlands Ranch, Littleton, Castle Rock, the Columbine area and Ken Caryl. I personally am the furthest thing from being liquid; but if I had some capital, I'd do it. | |
By coop
From Golden, CO
May 4, 2008
| Well I think you might want to be a little more north to get Arvada, Golden, Lakewood, Morrison, and Evergreen, etc.
I might consider that drive. | |
By Keegan
From Boulder, Co
May 4, 2008
| Chris Sheridan wrote: I heard their going to have indoor deep water soloing!
An olympic sized pool with walls surrounding it would be ideal! They could even make the floor retractable so that they could have the pool completly open, completly covered, or even somewhere in between. I now know what I'm doing with my first million dollars. | |
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