BLOG

Youth Climbing or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Kids’ Adventure
“By himself?” –Someone I just met. “Yeah.” –Me. Every two weeks or so, I find myself saying, “Yeah, alone” to someone I just met, and though the story that leads us to that point in the conversation has nothing to do with climbing, it really has everything to do with...

Lessons My Kindergartener Has Taught Me About Climbing
As parents, sometimes it’s easy to think we are the experts on climbing (and life in general!) compared to our kids. After all, we’ve often been climbing longer, and have the benefit of adult-world experience. But I am here to tell you that my kindergartener has...

Mental and Emotional Benefits of Kids Climbing
My name is Kristen, I started climbing when my now 10-year-old daughter took her first climbing class (4 years ago). She instantly fell in love with the sport. As a parent, I wanted to support my daughter, so my husband and I took the Rope 101 class and our adventure...

Your Child is a Climber and You’re Not (Yet) – Now What?
Climbing 101 for Parent Newbies Perhaps it started innocently enough with a family trip to a climbing gym, or maybe your child was invited to a birthday party at a local rock wall. But now your kiddo is enrolled in a climbing club…and asking if you saw them do that...

New Name Same Values
New Name Same ValuesWe’ve been in this business for 25 years, so we started with that old school, laid back, hand-made climbing wall crag. And then the sport exploded, it was added to the Olympics, people were telling us how great that “Free Solo” movie was, and bam,...

12 Ways to Tell If You’re a Climbing Mom
To start off, I LOVE climbing. I was lucky enough to start climbing at a young age. My parents noticed my passion and skill and signed me up for a climbing team. Passion turned to love, and I was hooked. As I got older, I kept climbing and eventually started coaching...

The Real Dangers of Rock Climbing
As a wife, mom of 4, grandmom of 1, world traveler, professional belay slave, part owner and general Cat Herder at Vertical Adventures, I’ve spent a lot of time around climbers, the climbing community and industry. Our investment in the business, coupled with my...

5 Reasons My Kids Rock Climb
My name is Megan, and I am an avid (if recreational) rock climber. I am also the proud mom of two climbing kiddos. I have an eight-year-old daughter who climbs competitively and an almost six-year-old son who climbs recreationally right now. I began climbing about...
We are serious.
Climbers of Ohio, Rejoice, because the ground is officially broken on the most groundbreaking development in the Columbus climbing scene since January 1994 when Vertical Adventures first opened. When open this fall, VA513 will have 44' tall walls, with a maximum route...
Work on VA513 continues!
Plans for VA513 continue apace. This week we met with the architects and builders to finalize everything for submission to the city. Who knew how many different choices for lighting fixtures there are or that it costs nearly $10,000 to have tankless toilets? In spite...
Recent Comments