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Review of Vertex Climbing Center

This is a very well equipped gym for climbing as w...

This is a very well equipped gym for climbing as well as training for it. There are two bouldering areas, one a deep recess to spider out of, the other a two-room cave with routes of varying difficulty sprawling over the walls. There are no topouts. The main climbing area is an arc of fortyish-foot-high wall ranging from slabby to overhung, of varying difficulty. There is a modular adjustable crack and an off-width crack built into the wall. The routes end at the top of the wall; there's no roof problems outside the bouldering cave. There are topropes to protect most of the routes, but a couple sections are accessible only by sport lead. There are also three auto-belays. It would be nice if they had a few more for higher solo sessions than the bouldering allows.
Upstairs opposite the climbing wall is a gym area with some barbell free weights, kettle bells, hanging rings, cardio equipment, rowing machines, and assorted other workout equipment geared toward the pursuit of climbing.
A final feature is the outdoor obstacle course, with some ropes and cable slack lines as part of a balance-focused apparatus. The only drawback there is the fact that there's the odd pile of dog doo no one bothered to pick up.
All in all, the biggest problem is it's not closer to my house.