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It occurred to me in conversation elsewhere that I am sadly lacking a climbing icon. Can anyone suggest where I might find something suitable?
While I'm here I'll introduce myself briefly -- I'm a fairly new climber (first time I went anywhere near a climbing wall was last September), based in London, & currently at about 4C with both top-roping and bouldering. With occasional excursions into V0/5A with greater or lesser degrees of success. I am having a huge amount of fun, anyway, which I tell myself is more important than competence :) I tend to do more bouldering atm as I can go up in the afternoons & do that on my own rather than having to make arrangements with someone else & probably go evening/weekend.
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Date: 2010-02-22 09:19 pm (UTC)Where in London are you climbing? I reserve the right to panic and hide if we turn out to be frequenting the same wall *g* (though I haven't been able to climb for the last few months owing to illness anyway).
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Date: 2010-02-22 09:49 pm (UTC)I climb at the Castle -- Mile End would probably be a smidge closer to me (am in Bermondsey), but I like the Castle because they are big fluffy hippies. (And I have a couple of friends who were already climbing there when I started; and they did a cut-price introductory course thingy.)
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Date: 2010-02-22 10:03 pm (UTC)If you ever stray from the Castle and like bouldering, I can wholeheartedly rec The Arch near London Bridge -- it's small but the staff are sweethearts and they set really interesting problems at all grades.
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Date: 2010-02-22 10:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-22 10:37 pm (UTC)Since they're so central, prices are a bit higher (as their rents are), but it gets much cheaper if you can go at off-peak times.
Mini video tour here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd5DJ5R0Who
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Date: 2010-02-24 05:02 pm (UTC)And they still have the cheapest espresso in central London.
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Date: 2010-02-26 12:21 pm (UTC)I fear that I am still at a stage where I automatically find most V0s (as opposed to V0- & lower) mindfucky, in the rather straightforward sense in which I look at them & go "I DO NOT EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START". (At the bottom, usually.) I spent 10 min on Wednesday working out the first 3 moves on a V0 & was quite pleased with myself.
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Date: 2010-02-26 01:41 pm (UTC)But they've got a nice and varied range of problems in that general range right now.
Anyway, I hope you have a lovely time!
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Date: 2010-02-26 03:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-26 05:43 pm (UTC)It was pleasingly unbusy
Yes, apparently it gets jammed in the evenings, but if you hit the right off-peak times (and there isn't a school party in), you can often have a whole wall to yourself.
And both staff and clientele seem to be very nice and chilled out.
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Date: 2010-02-26 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-22 09:56 pm (UTC)I'm an ex-London climber (I moved away last year) and I'm all about the fun. There are some great walls there, The Castle was my favourite for bouldering. They had such a great range of problems at the lower grades.
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Date: 2010-02-26 04:52 pm (UTC)I really like the bouldering at the Castle, as well. Also the chocolate tiffin they do in the cafe....
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Date: 2010-03-01 11:06 am (UTC)Ooh, yes! The chocolate tiffin was lovely. Makes me hungry just thinking about it.