Facility:

LOCATION

The climbing wall is located in the Lady Beaverbrook Gym (LB Gym) in Fredericton. The LB Gym itself is at the "bottom" of campus, just off Beaverbrook Street. Click for a detailed campus map.

The wall is in the lower right-hand side of the building. After walking through the front doors, turn right and go down the stairs at the end of the hallway. At the bottom, go through the doors and turn right again.


TERRAIN

The climbing wall contains a nice mix of vertical, overhanging, and technical terrain to accommodate beginner to advanced climbers within what was formerly two large racquetball courts. Walls are 15-20ft in height and promote bouldering over a fully padded floor, with other strategically-placed gym mats for added safety. Get an onsite member to tour you around the climbing wall to identify potential climbing hazards and proper climbing etiquette in our facility.

Walls are made of stud and plywood and were engineered and constructed through co-operative volunteer support from fundraising efforts and club members with professional engineering and carpentry experience. Climbing holds are purchased from a large number of different manufacturers including: Nicros, Metolius, Pusher, Franklin, Globe, Juggernaut, Teknik, and more. The club has a Metolius finger board, a chin-up bar, a wooden rung campus board.


ROUTESETTING

Route-setting is performed regularly by members and professionally during regional competitions. New climbing routes are constantly added and old ones removed to ensure new challenges. Routes and boulder problems of all difficulty can be found, from 5.6 to 5.13, and V0- to V11 (or harder, if you want!). Members must follow established route-setting guidelines.


EQUIPMENT

Outdoor climbing equipment is available for regular members and is signed out on a first come first serve basis.

Only certain equipment can be borrowed (one of each per member):

Equipment is signed out only to members by a wall monitor and must be returned after one week (no exceptions).

Note: borrowing equipment regularly is not acceptable! Buy your own. We need this stuff in good shape to run our courses! The purpose of borrowing equipment is to provide new members with the necessary equipment to try climbing under supervision of experienced members. Once the new member gets a taste for the sport, he or she is expected to buy their own gear.

Shoes can be rented for indoor use, but are not to be taken outdoors.

Ropes and slings (soft goods) are not to be borrowed under any circumstance as they cannot be easily inspected for damage. Slings and ropes are not to be used for any purpose other than instruction both indoors and outdoors and are solely for organized club programs.

We also sell chalk in blocks and tubular webbing. See our price list for details.