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So after 7 years of playing in Colorado and Utah, I've returned to the bluegrass. I need to rekindle the old Corbin sandstone flame...a few of the old schoolers on here will give me a good reference.

How many peeps are on here from Louisville? Is the climbing gym worth checking out? Colorado Front Range gyms/social clubs left a bad taste in my mouth...Ooohh I climbed the blue route look at me I'm cute...but I need to get back in shape.

Looking to climb easy stuff in the Red this saturday. I'll drive in exchange for a ropegun.

Anyone paddle and climb? My manic personality has apparently followed me back east.

Brandon

the climbing gym kinda sucked last time I was there about a year ago. But its much better than the climbing gym we have here in lexington...

rocksport in louisville is a fine, friendly gym tues and thurs are busy nights like most gyms.

I enjoy the routes there - completely sandbagged, but awesome nonetheless. I need to go back and use up my passes.

hesters is better. mostly, ok all bouldering but super chill. rocksport...meh. i'm going down saturday. as long as you aren't picky about what you climb then perhaps we can hook up.

disclaimer: ask anyone on here. i'm a pretty big pain in the ass.

I am at rocksport on most tuesdays and thursdays. Its not bad at all, at least its a good workout for the weekends. I haven't been to hesters yet but I hear its cool. I can't say I am much a part of the climbing scene around here but I would be happy to trade catches sometime or belays if you just want to climb.

(figured I would make the joke before anticlmber did)

Hesters is more fun and the boulder problems even change more than twice a year

ah yes the old "they don't change the routes often enough". its a problem at all gyms although I am suprised to here there is a problem with changing boulder problems as they are less labor intensive. our gym in Cbus pretty much has one route setter right now and many boulder problem setters and the funny part is they don't mix. Setting routes is a lot of work esp for people with full time jobs who want to also climb at said gym. Gym owners usually can't afford to give setters enough insentive to set very often hence the problem with routes not getting changed for months or perhaps years.

its easy to bitch about stuff until you take a closer look at how things are done...then its foot in mouth.

rhunt wrote:ah yes the old "they don't change the routes often enough". its a problem at all gyms although I am suprised to here there is a problem with changing boulder problems as they are less labor intensive. our gym in Cbus pretty much has one route setter right now and many boulder problem setters and the funny part is they don't mix. Setting routes is a lot of work esp for people with full time jobs who want to also climb at said gym. Gym owners usually can't afford to give setters enough insentive to set very often hence the problem with routes not getting changed for months or perhaps years.

its easy to bitch about stuff until you take a closer look at how things are done...then its foot in mouth.

routesetting can be difficult as you say, but there is no excuse for ancient boulder problems. There is also no excuse for leaving the same routes up for months and months and never even bothering to replace the tape that falls off.

The solution is simple: find good climbers who go to the gym but are poor, and give them some sort of compensation package for setting routes. I'd be more than happy to set a route on a saturday if I knew I'd get like 2-3 free days out of it (assuming that I would bother going to the gym in the first place).

Gyms seem to have a hard time staying profitable, so I'm always shocked that they fail to take care of the fundamental aspects of a gym which would go a long way to keeping you in business: periodically have new climbs, regularly have new boulder problems, and af the very least, if you're gonna have climbs up for months make sure the tape is still on them.

again, profit in a climbing gym is not coming from rock climbers who care if routes are changed ever month.