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General: Climbing is a perfect all encompassing sport (469 words)
by strangepower - written on 24.10.00 (Very useful, 70 readings)
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Let me expand on that. Climbing is a combination of strength, technique, mental resilience, determination and cool gadgetry. As well as this, the location for climbing is generally in an area of great outstanding beauty and on a cool geological feature. It is a rare person indeed who doesn't get invigorated by natural beauty and cool rock features. To be a good climber you must have a combination of strong fingers, a Zen like calm when confronted with difficult manoeuvres and of course a good head for heights. It helps also to have a high pain threshold and also not minding 'getting the fear' and being able to get over it as quickly as ...

excelent indoor walls, and great facilitlies (414 words)
by the_pie_master - written on 10.07.01 (Very useful, 157 readings)
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The castle-climbing centre. This is situated in north London. It is an excellent indoor climbing centre which puts my local indoor climbing wall to shame in Essex, (read my opinion on Essex uni climbing wall for more info). It has loads of climbing walls about 60 walls with a few roots on each wall, and it also has loads of boldering walls. The walls range from moulded texture to straight flat board. There are loads of facilities there, from café with an Internet computer that can be used for 50p access fee. Warning the person who runs the café can get annoyed when you disturb her talking to her friends when you want to order some thing! The food is ...

General: Awesome Walls Climbing Centre (Liverpool) (904 words)
by i_p_jones - written on 09.03.01 (Very useful, 368 readings)
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I'm a fell walker, have been for years. But a few weeks ago, along came foot & mouth disease and closed all the paths. Bummer, what do I do now? I know, I'll have a go at climbing. But again, the countryside's closed off. Little did I know Liverpool had its own indoor climbing centre - Awesome Walls Climbing Centre (AWCC). The AWCC is really easy to get to - a ten minute walk from Sandhills station, which is a five-minute journey from Liverpool city centre (a return ticket is only £1). Easy to get to, that is, if you know where it is! It's handy to look on an A-Z map before you go (it's on Athol Street, off Great Howard Street). If you get ...