"Hey you guuuuuuys" - welcome to our Reach climbing Saturday mornings meetup!

About
The Reach Indoor Climbing Wall, located right by the Thames, between the Thames Barrier and the Woolwich Ferry, opened its doors in January 2010. Their facilities have been constantly developing and they are already one of the most impressive walls in the country. The Reach climbing wall has about 135 roped/auto-belays numbered routes. The Reach climbing wall offers bouldering, top-roping, leading and auto-belays at its center. Some of us prefer bouldering while others will be in the top roping, leading or auto-belaying - this is up to you! We climb for a couple of hours and then the group regroups at 12.30pm without me in The White Horse 704 Woolwich Rd, London SE7 8FQ (https://goo.gl/maps/S4FZ9j1AYMPDs7uQ6) for now.

Meetups
We get together every Tuesday & Saturday at The Reach climbing wall meeting at 10.00am in the warming up area or else look out for someone wearing a black RAMS t-shirt around the center. If you're joining for the first time let us know via message and we will keep an eye out for you at the start :)

New Climbers!
Unfortunately, if you haven't climbed before it isn't as easy as just turning up and climbing up the wall. To climb safely you need to understand the hazards and be able to use the equipment correctly. You must have basic climbing skills and know how to put on a harness, attach a rope to a harness using a rethreaded figure of eight(figure of eight on the bight) and know how to use a belay device to pay out the rope and secure a falling climber etc. So before your first climb, you may be required by the climbing center to fill out health and safety forms. This may involve a quick test on climbing rules at the counter on arrival. Please add an extra 10/15 minutes before your session if you need to register for the first time. The Reach climbing wall terms and conditions will apply. Please also note signing up for the Meetup session won’t necessarily grant you access to the center.

Other communication
Within these groups, you are possibly likely to develop long-lasting friendships. Don't forget we have a Discord page and WhatsApp page https://chat.whatsapp.com/JNJ81oLSKB2JGaNm79em0C. The group will always be very varied when it comes to climbing levels, abilities and modality preferences. Do shout out if you have any questions. If you want to have a chat about this or other meetups, or just to keep in touch, ask to join us on Discord and/or WhatsApp. We have a dedicated The Reach climbing wall chat, but also talk about all things climbing (and some non-climbing!) including trips, gear talks and looking for climbing partner/s situations.

You’ll Rock it
A word of warning this sport is very, very addictive once bitten your its mistress for life. The simple challenge of you against the rock is sublime, there are competitions but then really the only real competition is 'you and the rock'. As climbing can be a very social activity we look forward to sharing our passion with yours.

Happy climbing!

p.s. Eventually, we will be starting and incorporating our climbing academy where we aim to bring skills, ropework and technique etc to enhance your climbing ability, using 25mm chalk bag colored belts to indicate your level. Naturally, The Reach climbing wall will also run courses to help improve your techniques too. Contact The Reach climbing wall for more info.