The world of climbing has so much to offer. Climb mountains, cliffs, or boulders, walk up a hill, scale the Himalayas, or just hang out at your local climbing centre. It all starts here!
Boulders Climbing Centre in Cardiff first opened its doors in 2008 and aimed to create a place where a friendly and inclusive climbing community could flourish. Our vision is to provide every climber with the skills they need to achieve their climbing goals.
This is why we focus on introducing new climbers to the sport, aiming to build up their knowledge of climbing at the same time as helping them build a network of friends, climbing partners, and mentors. At the same time, we work hard to support people who are already climbers through regular route setting, events, fitness classes, and great coffee.
Our Wall
With over 120 lines of roped climbing, a massive 4.5 metre high bouldering space that boasts up to 100 problems at any time, a full on training area and a proper coffee machine, we think we’ve got it dialled.
Routes
Our roped climbing walls are up to 12m high, ranging from pleasant slabs for taking it easy, warming up or getting balancey on, through to sustained vertical walls and pumpfest overhangs to satisfy your lactic acid addiction. We colour code our routes using a colour-blindness friendly system that aims to keep them distinguishable for everyone.
There’s a good mix of top-rope and lead lines, with a dedicated top-rope bay which is perfect for honing your skills. We also have 4 autobelays as well as a dedicated speed autobelay.
We have over 120 lines of indoor climbing, covering over 2,000 square meters of climbing surface and reaching heights of 12m. We try to ensure there are at least 3 routes per line on every line, so at capacity our maximum number of routes will exceed 360. We like to keep mixing it up too, with constant route setting that aims to have at least 50 new routes up per month.
Occasionally, our large swinging volumes will come out and we’ll set some nasty endurance-fest through the arches- we even have the odd dry tooling session!
Bouldering
Our ever-expanding bouldering area now comprises of the 4.5m high main room, The Arc top-out boulder, a 3m high vertical warm-up/beginners wall, a huge horizontal cave (complete with massive headwall) and a 45° woodie.
We use a colour coded grading system, with blocs using the same colour holds all falling within a couple of V grades of each other. With problems from V. easy to V10 there’s enough to keep anyone busy.
In the last couple of years we’ve listened to feedback and chamfered any aretes and filled in any right-angled corners and our bouldering area is now a totally unique place to pull on.