Brianna Upton Review of Climb Iowa
I would not consider myself an expert climber but ...
I would not consider myself an expert climber but I would not recommend this place to anyone who is not a first time climber. First of all the layout is terrible. There is a bouldering wall literally in the middle of the climbing floor, which means anyone trying to wait for an auto belay has the chance to get pummeled either by people descending or bouldering. There should be more than 6 feet between your climbing wall and bouldering mats. It's just ridiculous. On top of that their belay check is a joke. While I was waiting my turn to get checked, I had to provide instruction to the instructor signing off on my check for another testing pair as he didn't know how to use a grigri and the person testing clearly didn't know either. But despite the fact the person testing clearly had NO CLUE what he was doing, the instructor signed off anyway. I was completely appalled about the standard of safety. And if that all wasn't enough, this place is a kid zoo. People literally set their children free and you have to swim through them to get to anything. I will never come back or recommend this place to anyone in the area.
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