Nic and myself have been in Atlanta since Saturday night working on a routesetting job for a brand new Lifetime Fitness… First time I’ve done this (at this scale — I’ve set a few routes here and there before). Quite an immense job this has turned out to be. We arrived to find 18 70 pound boxes of holds – over 1200 pounds of holds and 300 pounds of bolts that we had to carry in from outside a box at a time and then open and prepare for setting:
We had 44 routes to set from 5.5 to 5.11 so it was over 3 days of hanging from my harness developing cuts and abrasions on my legs and trying to haul myself up ropes with a gri-gri and climbing through 30 feet of scaffolding behind the wall when setting the ropes. Pulled up on so many holds that I completely trashed a brand new pair of pretty decent work gloves.
I think we’re finally done now — just to have to go back tomorrow morning for the final check-off and help with some clean-up. I lost my phone there and am hoping to find it tomorrow. Should hopefully be climbing in Rocktown by tomorrow afternoon.
Nov
07
2007
5 Responses to “Atlanta Lifetime Routesetting”
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Nov 08 2007 5:43 am
Lynn:
That looks exhausting! Still got energy left to climb?
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Nov 09 2007 11:12 am
I think it is safe to say that 1200 lbs of new holds is a routesetters dream come true until you have to put them all up onto a wall in some sort of coordinated fashion.
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Nov 10 2007 10:57 am
Also — once you realize you’ll climb none of these routes other than about 2 moves at a time while setting them, it loses the mystique pretty quickly.
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Nov 12 2007 3:53 pm
no doubt…hopefully you were at least getting paid
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Nov 12 2007 3:56 pm
definitely.