Beacon Climbing Blog

New routes are going up in the main room, starting to get ready for those dark winter evenings to come. Streaky and Rory in today. Come in and check them out...

The Winter Aggregate 10-11 Commences the 3^rd of October!

This winter heralds a new direction for the aggregate, and ushers in a new age of fun and fair play.

Hundreds of problems, Spot prizes galore, Funky new volumes, Brand new ranges of holds..

Come and compete, complete and have a laugh!

Each month the leader board will be tallied and after the grand count at the end of March, Prepare to Party, for it’s…

The End of winter Grand Bouldering Bash!

8^th April 2011

An evening of celebration and competition, with the cream of the aggregate invited to battle for the top dog with cash prizes for the great and good. There will be a live DJ set and a Mega Raffle of donated prizes for all aggregate participants present, spectators and competitors alike.

The hugely popular "Back to School" Bouldering Competition is jumping from its traditional slot of the last Saturday of September to bring it closer to the 1st of October (the commencement of the winter aggregate). This  fun bouldering competition for young people aged 7 -17 provides a great day of challenge and merriment.

So the date for your diaries is the 2nd of October 2010.

Application forms available shortly

New boulder problems being set today, completing our font-style circuits for the summer. We've also got some funky new Core volumes going up, along with a prototype Beacon volume. Come in and check them out! 

We now have a set of Alpkit's Figure 4 dry tools available to hire at The Beacon. If you've not tried these before they're a great way of training those winter climbing muscles and just damn good fun! Guaranteed to get your pump on.

They're £4 to hire for a session and you'll need to get one of The Beacon staff to give you a quick run-through on how to use them if it's your first time. We'll get some pics up soon.

Find out more at http://www.alpkit.com/dryice/

We have one place left for our first CWLA training course this wednesday 14th july. Call the centre for more info - 0845 450 8222 

It's been a rainy old week in North Wales, so we've been busy here at The Beacon -lots of groups and lots of soggy looking climbers rained off the crags!

The Beacon's expert wall-building team are hard at work in Milton Keynes at the new Big Rock Climbing Centre. You can follow their progress here - looks like its going to be a great facility!

 

We have one space left on a CWA training course running this weekend (26th-27th june) at The Beacon. The cost is £115 and our course includes training for the optional abseil module. Candidiates will need to be registered for the award before attending a training course. For more info or to book, please call the centre on 0845 450 8222.

We've started setting a series of "Font" like circuits to tide us over until the Winter aggregate is upon us once more. The idea is to create 7 circuits of 10 or so problems each for you to romp round. The Problems are longer and linkable for ease of getting totally pumped, with a new cyclic circuit area behind the tree to help you achieve that 1,000 move link...

 

We're having a bit of a spruce up at The Beacon this week, a lick of paint here and there in preparation for the summer. We'll also be putting up some display boards of some of our great new hold shapes.

 

Pop in and check them out!

 

The Beacon is pleased to announce that we will be running our first training course for the new Climbing Wall Leading Award (CWLA) on Wednesday 14th July. 

 

The CWLA is aimed at instructors who want to supervise and teach lead climbing on artificial climbing walls and is open CWA and SPA holders with substantial experience of teaching and climbing indoors.

 

There are 8 places on the course and the cost is £90 per person. Candidates will need to be registered for the award before booking onto the training course.

 

For more info see our course page here or go to www.mltw.org

 

After much hard work the new Beacon Climbing website is up and running giving you all the information you need about what we do at Beacon Climbing.

 

You can get info about the Beacon Climbing Centre in north wales, find out about our innovative 3-dimensional plywood climbing walls or check out our new ranges of climbing holds in our online shop. It's all here!

 

There will be regular updates via our blog, plus we're on twitter too, so keep in touch.

 

The Beacon Team