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Burnley: 30 **AND** 45 degree walls now open 29-May-2006 At 8:54:30 AM climbingjac

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Dear climbers,

Thanks to a hard working team that pulled an 11 hour shift on Saturday, the vertical wall is now open for business. The wall is equipped with five routes, and due to some lovely juggy holds nice and low down, it even caters for short people (eg age 3). All routes on this wall are designed such that they can be done in runners, which will ensure that newcomers can have a decent play on it.

During the course of the weekend, a couple more "up" problems went up too…

An easy juggy blue route on the right hand end of the 30 degree wall; a moderate purple route on the right end of the 30 wall; a hard black route on the right hand end of the 45 wall; a moderate to hard pink route on the left end of the 45 wall; and a smattering of tiny green holds on the left arête of the 45 wall.

Routesetters will be doing some work throughout the course of this week to add routes to the wall. It is anticipated that by Friday we'll have a new route on the 45 wall; of difficulty in between that of the white route and the purple route. The route will be made up of burnt orange coloured holds.

The 30 wall might also be getting some new routes this week; subject to the availability of the allocated routesetter.

During the course of this week, the temporary worksite fencing will be removed, thus making it more obvious that it is a free public facility. Additionally a contractor has been arranged to attend the site and build up the ground level to make it flush with the mats, eliminating trip hazards. This contractor will also be compacting the ground so that the surface is much harder. This should mean less dust gets spread around and the area will be nice n clean!!

Please find below some piccies of the vertical wall. Thankyou heaps to Saturday's team that helped bring it to life…. Louisa Iacono, Steve Ford, Meily Effendy, Clarke and Kate Vincent, Ben Wright, Heather Murray, and Jeff Triplett.

Go go go! Routesetters hustle to get the first of the routes up on the wall before midday. This would allow us the luxury of borrowing the odd child from the bike track to sample the routes for us.

Many of the routesetters called in for duty on the vertical wall were not tall people. In other words we are short! This ensures we don't set things too reachy for the kids. Here, Meily Effendy is working on the juggy green route.

Open for business. Experienced climbers warm up on the wall, while families drop in to have a go in their runners. You will see from the pictures that there is a red route on the wall. This is the easiest route; and is below grade 10. It has two rows of handholds, which means even someone as short as a four year old can climb it!

Best wishes to all

Jacqui Middleton
BURNLEY PROJECT