Winter Midweek Climbing
Programme 2009-2010

We will be meeting indoors at one of the local climbing walls from 18:00 onwards on every Tuesday night until 6 April 2010.

This winter we will be visiting four different walls. First Tuesday of each month will be in Shrewsbury, Second and Fourth Tuesdays in Wolverhampton, Third Tuesdays at Newport and any Fifth Tuesdays in Birmingham.

This is the outline calendar and you can expect to find other club members present on these nights. Keen members of the club will be out climbing more than one night a week and some members will always tend to use their local wall even when the ‘official' meet is elsewhere. Use the bulletin board to keep in touch and to arrange lift sharing.

Directions to each location are shown after the table below.

Shrewsbury Sports Village aka “The Limit” Climbing/Bouldering

Sundorne Road, Shrewsbury, SY1 4RQ. Tel: 01743 281550 / 01743 256260

Email: sportsvillage.leisure@shropshire.gov.uk

Web: http://www.shropshire.gov.uk

Costs: Bouldering; £4.20, Climbing; £5.30, Over 60s; £4.25

Equipment Hire: Harness plus belay device £4:90. No rock boots available to hire

There is one easy bouldering wall and a harder bouldering wall as well as 12 vertical to overhanging roped panels with three routes per panel that can be top roped or led. Typical grades run from English 4a to 6c.

You have to prove you can put on a harness, tie in and belay to climb here, otherwise you can just boulder. If another club member is present they can ‘look after' you so you can climb.

You need to phone to check if someone is available to test you if you have not climbed here before.

Debriefing location (pub): George and Dragon, 2 High Street Much Wenlock, Shropshire, TF13 6AA

Wolf Mountain Climbing Centre

NEW ADDRESS is Paget Road, Wolverhampton. WV6 0DU

Tel: 01902 711186 or 07957 433187

Email: info@wolfmountain.co.uk

Web: http://www.wolfmountain.co.uk

Costs: £6.00 Annual Membership, Climbing; £6.00, OAP; £5.50

Equipment Hire: Harness plus belay device plus boots £6:00.

There is a wide range of bouldering and over 40 panels of top rope or leading routes. Typical grades run from French 3 to 7+.

You have to prove you can put on a harness, tie in and belay to climb here, otherwise you can just boulder.

Debriefing location (pub): The Dog and Gun, 1 Wrottesley Road, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV6 8SB (not sure if this still applies with new location)

Shropshire Climbing Centre

Springfield Industrial Estate, Newport, Shropshire, TF10 7EZ

Tel: 01952 814 566 / 07786 192 118

Email: info@newport.com

Web: http://www.newportrock.com

Costs: Annual Registration; £3.50, Bouldering or Climbing; £5.75, Concessions; £4.75

Equipment Hire: Harness plus belay device plus boots £4.00.

This wall has extensive bouldering circuits with over 100 problems from V0 to V6+. There are also ten roped panels with two routes per panel.

You have to prove you can put on a harness, tie in and belay to climb here, otherwise you can boulder.

Redpoint Climbing Centre

77 Cecil Street, Birmingham, B19 3SU. Tel: 0121 359 1777 Rock On Shop: 0121 359 8709

Email: info@redpointclimbingcentre.co.uk

Web: http://www.redpointclimbingcentre.co.uk

Costs: Annual Registration £2.00, Climbing; £6.50, Concessions; £5.00

Equipment Hire: Harness plus belay device plus boots £5:90

This wall is the most extensive of those that we visit with two bouldering areas and a wide range of top rope or lead panels from easy slabs to roof traverses as well as the famous stalactite. Grades run from French 3+ to as hard as you can imagine!

You have to prove you can put on a harness, tie in and belay to climb here, otherwise you can just boulder.

Debriefing location (pub): The Bull, 1 Price Street, Aston, Birmingham B4 6JU

There is also Creation Climbing Wall in Moseley in Birmingham and the wall at Sport Martley near Worcester.

All prices as published on 1 September 2009

For a PDF version of the above information click here. Many thanks to David Bowler for his hard work.