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Posted by Bill S on December 2, 2007 at 2:06:09 pm EST
In reply to Hold Reviews posted by ntmb on November 29, 2007 at 6:16:34 pm EST

ntmb,
I'm in the process of replacing my 1950s era tract house (one of the "2 days from pouring the slab to moving in" style that was so popular in the 1950s) by building a new one. Barb and I gave thought to making the back wall of the house a climbing wall (it's MY house, so I can build it the way I want, right?). But a couple of realtors commented that when we move on to a nursing home in 5 or 10 years, the permanently installed climbing wall will restrict the number of potential customers by a huge amount. Besides which, the Planning Office of my Officially Liberal City (by city ordinance, and no, I'm not kidding) has Their Rules about what you can and cannot do on your property.

So the idea of a personal climbing wall was just a passing thought. And we do have close to a hundred commercial climbing gyms in the SFBay Area, some of which have multiple locations (one chain, owned by a Famous Climber, has 17 locations), plus most of our 11 REI locations (a new one just opened 2 weeks ago) have climbing walls. Some of the gyms are pretty tiny (like Twisters, about a mile from me), but some (like IronWorks or both of the Planet Granites) are huge. No real need for a personal wall.

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