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Compare gyms in Melbourne to Europe 31-Jan-2008 At 9:12:38 PM dreamingof8a

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On 31/01/2008 red wrote:

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>15 mins maybe but at the gym I worked at overhanging walls of 20 metres
>length take a bit longer than 15mins!! These same walls project over the
>top of many other walls and therefore with the potential drop factor (which
>often happens) more than "2 rows of quickdraws" needed to be closed..
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>Maybe an easy route takes 1-2 hours multiple that buy the 3 or 4 different
>graded routes for each wall/rope and there's your day gone..
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>It could be just me but the people with most criticism of gyms are the
>ones who have never worked in one and have experienced the "don't tell
>me I know better" attitude of some climbers
>

You're right for VERY steep walls (roofs) but it never exceeded around 20mins for other walls (see http://kletterwerk.de/40.0.html ) even using the crane thingy.

Okay, enough off topic, sorry.