Elevate Climbing Walls is now a distributor for Trublue Auto Belays.  The Vertical World has installed  them in the Seattle, Redmond, and Everett gyms and we are having a great response from the customers.  I resisted putting auto belays into our gyms for years because of a fear of watering down the importance of learning to belay correctly, and not giving the impression to the customer that auto belays are a substitution for not knowing how...

Check out this new video from our friends at So iLL: So iLL: Guard Booth from So iLL on Vimeo.

This is a brief video tour of the Seattle Vertical World, a recent Elevate Climbing Walls project:

One thing that I have learned during the past 25 years is that it is essential to modify, refurbish, expand, or replace old climbing walls in your business after a period of time.  In 1989 I started this process with the original Seattle gym and it was based on the textured panel system.  Now that I have 4 gyms in the Puget Sound area, I have established a solid history of remodeling climbing walls in my gyms and seeing the financial results...

We had a great time at the Climbing Wall Summit in Boulder, CO.  It was our first time showing Elevate Climbing Walls with a trade show booth.  We were there mainly to observe and learn.  There are a lot of climbing walls being built around the country.  The level of new business and new climbing gyms is at a very high level.  One thing that we learned while we were there is that there are a lot of older rock climbing gyms around the...