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Caspian wrote:Hoosier Heights, Bloomington, IN. My favorite gym ever.

Me too. It's worth the one-hour drives

A little woody in our garage...would gladly go to a climbing gym in Lexington if there was such a place.

Any one from Toronto? I hear they have 4 gyms there that are pretty darn nice.

Treadwall at EKU every Tues and Thurs mornings around 8am. I'm building up my sad endurance.

The wall there's nice too.

Joe Rockhead is in Toronto. I've heard that route setters there make something like 12 bucks and hour. At climb time, before its timely demise, I made 5.15 per hr and half the time you couldn't cash your paycheck. Wouldn't mind having it back though. The gym not the job that is.

I've been to Joe Rockhead's in Toronto. They've got quite a few walls (both tr and lead), more than at any other gym I've been to. But when I was there (6.5 years ago) it seemed much more about the scene and looking good, and the routes were really overrated. I cleanly top-roped (tr onsight) my first "12" there, when I was just starting to cleanly tr mid 10's at other gyms. They had some really neat bouldering caves though (6 or 8 caves, each about 6' tall at the entrance, maybe 8-10' wide and 15-30' deep - I don't really know how good the problems were, since I sucked even more at bouldering then than I do now.

I've also been to the U of Calgary gym. It was kind of strange. You brought or rented your own rope, climbed a ladder to a platform that went around the outside of the gym, and hung your own toprope on each route. But, some of the walls had sections that were big blocks of real rock (limestone, I think), so you climbed using both natural features and holds bolted to the limestone.

Currently I climb at Hoosier Heights - like Caspian and Meadows, it's my favorite gym ever.[/i]

Is it true that they have dancing midgets at Joe Rockheads? That is what the ad says.

At least when I was there, it wasn't dancing midget night.

But it was a cool gym (and either it wasn't too softly graded, or I was weak that day)