Another Rendering: The Lead Cave

Here is another rendering from our designer Jason at Eldorado Climbing Walls. This is the lead cave, which will be in the south-east corner of the gym. As usual, a click on the image will bring up the high-res version that you can pan across. Don't worry about the bent ropes; they were outside in the cold and got a little stiff!

This is the one part of the gym where most of the high windows will be covered with climbing terrain, so we've chosen light colours for this neighbourhood (light blue and white). As with the earlier renderings of the bouldering terrain, this gives you a general idea, but understates the angles on the walls. That cave will be seriously steep; here are some details from Jason:

• Longest overhang = 23 feet
  
• Longest straight line route = 45 feet (meandering routes can push +50 linear feet)
• Average angle in the cave is ~45 degrees

The total height up to the high ceiling is 36 feet. The cave is designed as a compound curve. The shallowest line is to the west and it gets deeper as you transition east. The focus was on progression.

We're putting our hold room in the space behind the wall on the right part of the image (where the base of the wall comes back out enough to allow top-roping). There will be a huge area behind the wall, and Dustin is looking forward to setting up shop back there.

I'm expecting one more rendering to complete the series. We've seen the main bouldering structure and the roped wall from the north half of the gym, and the lead cave above which is in the east half of the south side. The last rendering will provide a peek at the area in front of the reception desk, with the stalactite (yes, I said stalactite) hanging in front of the arch.

Construction progress has been very good of late, and we remain on track to open sometime in the second half of March.