Climbing Walls
- The Seattle Program Center offers climbers a number of walls and structures that can be climbed year round. It has:
- An amazing outside wall with natural-looking features,
- Two indoor climbing walls, one with a specially designed rappel station,
- A giant artificial boulder,
- A simulated water ice wall,
- A dry tool wall,
- 30 foot tall climbable basalt columns,
- An aid climbing practice area,
- 6 weight-drop stations suitable for standing and sitting belays,
- A boulder/scree field for scrambling and loosening up, and
- a Friction Mountain
ALL are available for climbing and practicing at the Seattle Program Center.
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The South Wall catches your eye as you approach. It looks real, but was built to our specifications by Entre Prises. Each tower has a chimney, jam cracks, and natural-looking handholds. |
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The boulder sometimes has lots of extra holds for kids. And sometimes you may wish to use chalk. |
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These basalt columns are climb-able but you'll need to place protection as you hand and foot jam your way upwards. |
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Raining outside? There are a number of places to climb and rappel inside. This wall is a smaller version of the South Wall - natural looking handholds, jam cracks, and a chimney. |
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In the summer, you can still practice your ice climbing and crampon skills. The wall is made of dense foam which can hold the weight of a climber. Modified ice tools are used (no serrated edges) to protect the wall. |
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Water Ice climbers often have to climb over sections of rock. This Dry-Tooling wall provides the opportunity to practice climbing using your ice tools. This wall is also used for bouldering practice. |
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A unique friction climbing structure has been built on the north side of the Program Center. Textured concrete slabs are placed at a number of different inclinations to form a Friction Mountain. The vertical north wall of the tower are climb-able, with full-length cracks. The slabs look like real sandstone and granite. The company that builds the natural-looking exhibits at the Woodland Park Zoo were the concrete artists.
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In the basement, we have 6 weight-drop stations, allowing new belayers the opportunity to catch a 100 pound fall.
The Aid Climbing wall is loaded with bolts and hangers. Our Yosemite Big Wall climbers get their start here. |
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Sometimes these climbing structures can seem so real that goats move in and make themselves at home. OK. OK. Maybe not. These goats were brought in as part of a group that ate their way through an area overgrown with blackberry bushes. This area is now part of the Mountaineer Native Plant garden. These goat did spend a couple of hours enjoying the Boulder at the Program Center Grand Opening. |
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