What's on the walls
Five climbing areas, 220 problems, and a grade range that goes from "never done this" to "don't watch me fall."
Low angle · technical
The Slab
Less than vertical, which sounds easier and isn't. Slab is about trusting your feet on holds that look like nothing, and it's where almost everyone starts because the falls are short and the moves are slow.
If you've never climbed, you'll spend your first hour here and leave with sore calves instead of sore fingers.
45 degrees · powerful
The Cave
Forty-five degrees of overhang and the wall that humbles people. Everything here is about tension — holding your feet on when gravity is trying to swing them off.
It's the hardest terrain in the building and also, oddly, where beginners have the most fun, because falling off steep ground is easy and painless.
Outside corner · balance
The Arête
An outside corner you climb around rather than up. Body position does most of the work, so it rewards people who are patient more than people who are strong.
It is also the most photographed wall in the gym, which we suspect is why it stays busy.
Beginner wall · always open
The Yellow Wall
A whole wall kept deliberately soft. Big holds, short problems, grades set a notch under what they'd be anywhere else in the building.
It's always busy and that's the point — you are never the only person on it figuring something out for the first time.
Grades, explained
The numbers on the tags
Weekly reset
Same wall, two Tuesdays
Drag the handle. Same forty feet of the cave, seven days apart — every hold moved, every problem different.
On the walls
A normal Wednesday
