Updated Panorama Views

Last weekend Mark Banas returned to the gym, and shot another set of panorama images. You can view them here. And to see what the space looked like before we started, compare that to the "before" panorama.

Apart from how cool these are, what strikes me is how much progress was made in the week since Mark shot these:

• the drywall now covers the non-climbing areas
• the windows have opened up on the north side, over the bouldering terrain, so there is natural light in there once again
• the steel in the south side is now pretty much all covered in wood
  

Enjoy! Thanks, Mark!

Have a Look Around

Mark Banas met me at the gym on Sunday, to shoot some images of the big empty space. Today he sent me the result of his work: a set of 3 Flash panorama images that give a good sense of the space we have to work with. You can enjoy them by starting here. You can watch the room spin around you or navigate on your own using the controls at the bottom of the window. Look up to see the high space of the clerestory windows. Look down! And if you explore a bit with the mouse, you'll find links to 2 more viewpoints that each have their own panorama. Oh, and no, not all of that space will be ours! The landlord will be building a wall to divide the space. See the blue doors in the far corner? The dividing wall will go up just in front of them. Or when looking at the hangar doors with the windows on the right-hand exterior (south) wall, 4 of those 6 parts of the hangar doors are in our space. If you look closely at Panorama #2, you can see the chalk line I drew on the floor to mark the boundary.

I've been working on fixing up the main web site over the past few weeks, and today got a cleaned up version deployed (using Drupal, for those who care what Content Management System I've been exploring). Over time I will look at integrating the surrounding pages (this blog, the photo gallery currently on Picasa, maybe the forums) into the main site, and I'll get these panoramas set up there as well. But I didn't want to wait to share these cool views of the great space that True North Climbing will soon be growing into.