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Title: Why a Climbing Wall


1
Why a Climbing Wall?
  • Integral part of an adventure program
  • Use a climbing groups or individuals
  • High profile architecture
  • Efficiently use an under utilized area of a
    facility
  • Training facility for climbers
  • An additional fitness development opportunity

2
Planning Questions
  • Who will be the users?
  • Will the wall be a stand-alone entity?
  • Will the wall be used in conjunction with other
    facilities?
  • How will the project be funded?
  • Is this a new or retrofit of an existing
    facility?
  • How much space is available?

3
Planning Questions
  • How important are aesthetics?
  • What type of flooring will be best for the
    facility?
  • Do the design features promote safety, minimize
    maintenance problems, and meet program needs

4
Design factors
  • Wall surface real rock look, seamless cement,
    panels, wood
  • Wall height bouldering wall 12 Commercial
    height 25 to 35 competition wall 35
    training wall 40
  • Portable walls
  • Climbing treadmills
  • Wall features number, type, and location of
    handholds, cracks, aretes (corner), depressions,
    overhangs, caves, ledges, etc.

5
Design Factors
  • Wall structure wall sub-structure must be
    designed to hold weight of climbers, movement of
    climbers, and impact of climbers
  • Security
  • Storage
  • Flooring movable landing mats, thickly padded
    carpeting, 6 of rubber pieces or gravel
    flooring extends 6 out from furthest protrusion
    of the wall

6
Climbing wall types
  • Homemade
  • Prefabricated panel system
  • Portable walls
  • Climbing towers

7
Climbing Equipment
  • Ropes
  • Harnesses
  • Helmets
  • Belay system
  • Locking D carabiners
  • Climbing shoes

8
Safety Standards for Walls
  • Supervisors are qualified instructors
  • Emergency equipment available
  • CPR and First Aid training for personnel
  • Periodic in-service training
  • Policies and emergency procedures must be posted
  • Climbers must show proficiency in belay
    techniques, rope handling skills, climbing
    signals
  • Facilities regularly inspected
  • Negative air pressure maintained in indoor
    facility
  • Wall surface moderately abrasive

9
Challenge Ropes Courseslearning objectives
  • Commitment
  • Communication
  • Fun, exhilaration, challenge
  • Risk taking
  • Fear management
  • Team work
  • Leadership
  • Ability to follow
  • Problem solving
  • Safety education
  • Trying to ones best
  • The joy of effort
  • Exceeding ones perceived limits
  • Trust
  • Cooperation
  • Compassion
  • Physical fitness
  • Coordination

10
General Elements of Low Ropes Course
  • Rope swing on knotted rope
  • Spiders web
  • Hanging tire
  • Traversing and balancing the swinging log
  • Tension traverse on low cable wire with overhead
    rope
  • Traverse the diverging cable wires
  • Balance beam traverse
  • Low wall
  • Higher log beam
  • Swinging tires traverse
  • Catwalk or twin cable wire feet only traverse

11
High Challenge Ropes Course
  • Vertical rope ladders, cargo nets, or log rungs
  • Centipede poles with staples, firecracker ladders
  • Inclined log, fidget ladder, or beam
  • High and low cable bridge traverse
  • Zip wire on a pulley
  • Trapeze dive
  • Pamper pole or high pedestal
  • Trapeze or knotted rope swing
  • Twin wire cable or rope traverse
  • Cable traverse with hanging rings or vertical
    ropes for hands

12
Ropes Course Maintenance
  • Use pressure treated lumber
  • Weatherproof wood parts
  • Use only healthy trees with a solid root system
    as support trees
  • Use wood chips or bark mulch around the base of
    trees
  • Immediately replace dead or insect infected trees
  • Trim and cleared broken or overgrowing limbs
  • Remove splinters and rough edges on all wood
    parts
  • Replace and repair all rotten or cracked wood

13
Rope course maintenance
  • Reset protruding mails
  • Check for rotting of the poles in the ground
  • Use only galvanized metal items (I.e., bolts,
    cables, cable locks, rapid links)
  • Tighten nuts and bolts, turnbuckles, and clamps
  • Temporarily cover all frayed cable ends
  • Cover all frayed areas with permanent sleeves
  • Inspect cables for smoothness
  • Cables should be 3/8 wire rope that is 7 x 19 (7
    stands with 19 wires per strand)

14
Challenge Ropes Course Equipment
  • Use Union International Association of Alpinists
    certified climbing ropes and screwgate locking
    carabiners
  • Install only stainless steel or galvanized
    hardware
  • Have participants wear an adjustable harness
  • Maintain positive security while on the ropes
    course using lobster claws
  • Minimize rope wear and damage by using a shear
    reduction devise
  • Have a first aid available
  • Store equipment in cool dry place

15
Challenge Ropes Course Equipment
  • Lightning protection on high ropes courses
  • Require helmets be worn on high or dangerous
    elements
  • Use a gravity break on a zip line element
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