Reading Climbing Centre is being developed by John Dunne, the man behind Manchester Climbing Centre and the new Harrogate Climbing Centre (that opens this month). John is well-known for his first ascents of many modern grit classics including New Statesman at Ilkley and Widdop Wall.
Excellent - at last there is a public face to back the rumours up. And it is a relief to know that there is someone with experience behind it too, rather than a sports centre-type set up. I really hope this works out.
excellent cant wait for it to open, from bracknell will be much easier to access than westway, and hopefully more parking than the 10 spaces at guidlford craggy
Particularly interesting to Reading locals is that it looks like you will get a 'Your Reading Passport' discount to use the wall (like you can get at council-run leisure facilities). It would be good if this means not having to pay £8.50 a session like Craggy.
Excellent news! At last berkshire will have something vertical to climb up, should give craggy island a run for their money. Lets hope they change the routes more often, craggy's recent routes have been up for nearly 2 months!
(sussexclimber should be berkshire climber 4 years and counting . . .)
OMFG!!!! At last!!!!!!!!!!! I thought it was dead in the water & I'd given up all hope.
Woohoo!!!
I've had to give up climbing because I need to work at the weekends till the summer and Craggy is too far to manage on a weeknight. 3 months without a climb so far & I'm getting out of shape. This is a 10 minute jog from my house!
Fecking yay!
Has anyone any experience of Manchester & Harrogate then? Can we expect great things? TBH anything with 100 topropes and a load of bouldering is going to be a marked improvement on sod all, which is what we currently have...
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