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Brunswick Bouldering Wall 1-Jul-2015 At 2:21:29 PM bones

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I went for a quick look this morning. It's quite a nice facility, and I think it will attract a lot of new people to climbing. Even during my very short session at 8am a lot of people seemed interested in what I was doing. It's great that the people involved were able to get this funded and built, and I'm grateful for their efforts

But....

I think it's a real shame that with so much money involved and so much space available, the result is a small wall which doesn't seem to cater well to a big part of the potential user group. I get the point that it's not just for climbers, but I can't see why it couldn't have catered for everyone at that budget. At burnley many people start out on the vertical wall in their runners but soon buy climbing shoes and spend all their time doing laps on the 35deg wall.
The brunswick wall is quite low, so "up" problems are very short, and it's not that long, so when doing circuits I felt like I spent most of my time feeling my way around corners.

On a constructive note maybe adding a juggy circuit would help, both as a warm up and as a stamina option?