The Glasgow Climbing Centre

Another amazing performance from all our young GCC squad climbers today at round 2 of the YCS in Perth College Climbing Centre.
4 podium places for this round and 7 going through to the final for the Scotland team selection event in March. 💪💪💪
Well done to all the competitors today and of course everyone that make these comps a success!
... DMM Climbing ClimbScotland Mountaineering Scotland
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You'll notice we've updated all our lower-off at the top of all out lead panels.
No difference for a lead climber at the top, just clip either of the snap-gates and lower off as usual.
If you're setting up the panel to be top-roped make sure you clip both of the snap-gates before you are lowered.
... DMM Climbing
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📣📣 BIG NEWS 📣📣
The Glasgow Climbing Centre is proud to announce that we will now be hosting a monthly ‘Ladies Lock-In’, which will take place on a Saturday night after normal opening hours.
📅 The first event will take place on Saturday the 22nd of February, from 6pm - 9pm 📅... https://www.facebook.com/events/480012682 911866/
Here’s a word from organisers Rachael and Eilidh 👇
''GCC Ladies Night will be an informal after-hours session for women to try climbing for the first time, hone their skills, or work on their projects. A team of all-female instructors will be on hand for everything from teaching the basics to improving climbing technique. All ages and levels of experience are welcome! "
We hope these nights will be fun, sociable and empowering. We aim to create a positive atmosphere and sense of community that will help women feel comfortable in challenging themselves.
This evening is set up in partnership with energise-her, a Glasgow Sport initiative set up to tackle the imbalance in participation rates of males and females in sport and physical activities. We aim to empower those who identify as women by creating a space for them to learn and have fun, and to by helping them overcome some of the barriers to getting involved in climbing and physical activity more generally.''
Hope to see you some of you there!! 🥳🧗‍♀️💪
#ayeshecan #sportforlife #womensupportwomen #empoweringwomen #womenoutdoors
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Always enjoy the Betamonkeys cartoons! Think this might be a great actual product (!) What cards or rules would you add to the set?💪😂

Just a reminder to all those that are psyched for the final round of our winter bouldering series that we have moved the date to the 14th Feb. The bouldering is open as usual tonight

We're going to be resetting the big-wall next week and we've had a lot of requests for a larger range of grades to be set rather than multiples of the same grade.
With the left wall now having no grades harder than 7a and the new wall with plenty of 6's, our plan is to step up the grades on this Big-wall.
We plan to set one of each grade from 5+ to 8a. Do you like this plan??
... Yes. You would like a spread of grades so that you have something at every grade to work on. The big-wall needs harder stuff!
No. You prefer the wall with multiple climbs of lower grades. I wouldn't be interested in the harder stuff.
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Bouldering Series update!!!
We have decided to move the last round of our Bouldering series to Friday 14th of February.
Please share the new to your friends and climbing partners to avoid disappointment of turning up on the wrong day.

Awesome effort from all of our Performance Squad yesterday at the first round of the ClimbScotland YCS at Avertical World . They bagged 4 podium places spread across the age categories and plenty of other great results.
Congratulations all of you, we're looking forward to following your progress through the coming comp season.
DMM Climbing #GCCPerformanceSquad

Sasha DiGiulian comes to Stirling! Only 2 Scottish dates on her tour (the other is Inverness). The 12th Feb at The Albert Halls, Stirling.
Join one of the world’s best climbers, Sasha DiGiulian, with multiple first ascents and 28 First Female Ascents to her name, as she tells her favourite climbing stories and presents her film of the history-making ascent of The Trilogy, where she became the first female, and only the second person, to climb the Rocky Mountain triple big walls in a single season
https://www.facebook.com/events/529627471 164219/

Pitch Black 2020 Results.
If you want to see some of the action from lasts nights epic competition, check out our story on Instagram!!

Morning everyone! Only one hour to go here at PitchBlack 2020. Want to see more from the night? Check out our Instagram story for all the best bits...

THIS IS PITCH BLACK 2020

Pitch Black 2020 is off to a cracking start. 40 teams battling it out in our 12 hour night-time climbing marathon. Lights go out and head-torches go on soon!! Cafe is open until ten tonight if you want to come down and spectate and grab some dinner #pitchblack2020

Lots of inspirational speakers up our way in the next few weeks. Prepare for your First Adventure with Jamie Ramsay - Glasgow Coming to Cotswold Outdoor Glasgow on Tuesday 28th Jan. Tickets only £3.50, with proceeds to charity.

We are all so excited for tomorrow nights Pitch Black 2020 Competition! Been watching teams training hard for the last few weeks now💪. Thinking of coming down to support? Our cafe will be open all night. Why not bring a beer and enjoy the spectacle. First Lights Out is 9pm!

We have been using Consensus grading here for a while now, where climbers are encouraged to write down their grade suggestion for a route, all suggestions are collated, and the average taken. Do you think this is something we should continue doing?
Yes. Grades can go astray if there isn't an easy way to feedback anomalies.
No. I don't think it makes a difference. Just put a single grade up. We will let staff know if we feel the route isnt graded correctly.
... We would appreciate your thoughts on this. Cheers. Rob Gcc Watts (Centre Manager)
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