If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Here is a behind the scenes look at the route setting of Rockcity. We have tens of thousands of climbing holds which get regularly removed from the walls, cleaned and then reset, tested and graded, transforming them into fresh [...]
January 2012
Last week saw the opeing of La Cantina. This new wall is sponsored by La Sportiva and for the opening La Sportiva ran one of their climbing shoe demos. We decided that a demo photo comp was in order. Here is the winning picture. We think the the true spirit of La Sportiva is here. [...]
The highlights of last Wednesdays official opening of the La Sportiva, LA CANTINA at Rockcity in Hull. Featuring Neil Gresham and Gaz Parry testing some of the blocs, short interviews with Neil and Gaz, the local climbers devouring the problems and some of the dyno comp. This film gives you an idea of the climbing, [...]
La Cantina, our new bouldering area at Rockcity is now open. With a packed out opening night with pro rock climbers Neil Gresham and Gaz Parry, supported by La Sportiva, the new La Cantina sponsors. A queue quickly formed as noone had had a chance to see the completed bouldering before the official opening. The [...]
Things move on, things change and change is good. With the dawn of the new bouldering area at Rockcity, the Bloccity boulder only membership option and 150+ new, higher, longer boulder problems there is one question that has been asked repeatedly – ‘what will happen to the Moon Wall?’ With everybody focusing on the new [...]
Opening on Wednesday 11th January 2012 the new La Sportiva sponsored bouldering area at Rockcity has been named ‘La Cantina’. La Cantina is Italian for ‘cellar’ and as the original part of this vast new chamber was known simply as ‘the cellar’ we thought it was a great name for it, especially being sponsored by [...]