Summers Coming

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Matt

hi all!

hey, summers nearly here! yup thats right, its around the corner, spring has sprung, the clocks have given us an hours extra climbing in the evenings so get that rack sorted, fill your chalk bags, pack your ropes packed and hit the crag for some routes!

we would like to say good luck to Chris Wild and his new venture 'wild rock climbing wall'. It set in far peak business park in the nearby cotswolds' just outside the village of northleach, has some really fun bouldering and climbing by king kong climbing walls. its bright, funky and has had the first chalk marks and problems layed down by Vertex's Steve Woods, head4heights Rod Baber and yours truly during a quick blast one evenin' last week! its fun! we hope to be working with chris to develope his ideas, will be setting some routes and helping with some future competitions. Its small at present but perfectly formed and will give climbers somewhere new to climb and boulder, get that climbing fix after work, cruise some problems when you cant reach the crag and give locals a great winter training session venue. Chris also has camping on site for those wishing to stop over on the way to the wye valley and those looking to enjoy a days climbing indoors.

check his website out on http://wildrockclimbing.co.uk/

we would also like to say we can offer groups some exciting times at head4heights also in the cotswolds.

Rod Baber, current record hold of the fastest ascent of the highests points in every european country (800somethingdays) has built a fantastic high ropes adventure centre. its located in the Keynes Country Park near south cerney cirencester and is a pole based centre. meaning all the elements are up in the air on poles above the ground. its fun when the wind blows and shakes the poles when your 4 people up on a 40cm square platform!! its a fantastic facility for corporate, stag/hen, family schools and youth groups and general public to enjoy. matt has just passed his senior instructor course for high ropes with them and can be found helping with instruction and groups at the centre. if you fancy a freefall jump, leap of faith (or leap of love for couples!) or climbing several 8 metre poles then please feel free to contact them on 01285 770007 and tell them we sent ya!

we have lots planned for summer, if your interested in learning to climb outdoors, fancy a taster session to see what its all about, want to brush up rope management, leading outdoors or self rescue techiniques please drop us a line and we can get you up, out and about!

best wishes all,

see you somewhere adventureous soon!

matt and the gang!

p.s. in times of busy bookings we might not be able to get back to you straight away, but we will encevour to reply with in 24 hours.

p.p.s we must appologise that in cleaning up the site we have been unable to remove some of the really old news items for some reason! so if you scroll down you'll enjoy what we were doing back in 03! were working on it! :)