Welcome to The Foundry Blog....

Opening its doors back in 1991, The Foundry has been at the heart of the Sheffield and UK climbing scenes ever since. Almost two decades on, the centre continues to provide a world class environment for climbers, whether you're new to the sport or about to tick your first Font 8b!

The blog will keep you up to date with the activity and achievements that are going on in and around The Foundry.

Hope to see you soon! - Neil Bentley (Centre Manager)

Friday 28 January 2011

Mammut Climbing Challenge - raffle winner, week 2

The lucky winner of a 60m single rated Mammut rope is James Newby
(James, you can collect your rope from Reception next time you're down climbing)

There are still 2 ropes up for grabs in weekly raffles, all you need to do to enter is collect a free score sheet from reception and remember to hand it in each day after you have finished climbing.

This is an informal comp run over 4 weeks, so you can take your time trying to complete the twelve routes over multiple climbing sessions. Just remember it is a ground up competition, so if you fall off (or rest) you must lower to the ground before starting another attempt.

As well as the raffle prizes, there are also ropes up for grabs to the top scoring climbers in each category.

Thursday 27 January 2011

Grigri 2 - now in stock

The eagerly awaited GRIGRI 2 has a new design that allows excellent control during the descent and it can be safely used on all single dynamic 8.9 to 11 mm ropes on the market (ideal at 9.4 mm to 10.3 mm).

Availabe in store or order online from CragX

Tuesday 25 January 2011

The Big vertical Marathon - Charity Climb Event

Starting on 22nd January, two climbers began attempting to climb the height of a marathon, thats 42,195m!! Not only that they will be doing it over 7 days at 7 different climbing centres around the country.
They will be climbing here on Thursday 27th so please come and support them.
The challenge is to raise money for Cancer Research.
Visit the event website at http://www.thebigvmt.org.uk/.

They need belayers so anyone willing to give up any time for this please come along.

Monday 24 January 2011

BMC Youth climbing Series - Nottingham 22/1/11

Area Youth Coordinator Jim Watkins reports on the 1st round of the Youth Climbing Series held at Nottingham Wall. Round 2 will be at The Foundry on 5th February.

In the Girls 8-10, Pippa and Abbie matched each other all day with perfect scores and could not be separated on countbacks or attempts etc. they therefore had to climb off with Pippa just snatching the win by a single point from Abbie!
- Boys 8-10, Mark Alkins- Tooth also maximum scored and won his category
- Girls 11-13, Mary Clerkin and Dana Windle gained a creditable 3rd and 4th places respectively. Bethany Jennings also climber well but finished 8th,
- Boys 11-13, Tom and Ben Lee came 2nd and 3rd respectively
- Boys 14-16 Alex Hall finished 2nd, whilst James Waterhouse unfortunately had to retire due to injury.
For BMC full results the link is here: http://www.thebmc.co.uk/News.aspx?id=3509

See you all on Saturday 5th Feb at The Foundry.

The Big vertical Marathon - Charity Climb Challenge

Starting on 22nd January, two climbers began attempting to climb the height of a marathon, thats 42,195m!! Not only that they will be doing it over 7 days at 7 different climbing centres around the country.
They will be climbing here on Thursday 27th so please come and support them.
The challenge is to raise money for Cancer Research.
Visit the event website at http://www.thebigvmt.org.uk/.

They need belayers so anyone willing to give up any time for this please come along.

Friday 21 January 2011

Mammut Climbing Challenge - raffle winner, week 1

The lucky winner of a 60m single rated Mammut rope is Mark Alkin
(Mark, you can collect your rope from Reception next time you're down climbing)

There are still 3 ropes up for grabs in weekly raffles, all you need to do to enter is collect a free score sheet from reception and remember to hand it in each day after you have finished climbing.

This is an informal comp run over 4 weeks, so you can take your time trying to complete the twelve routes over multiple climbing sessions. Just remember it is a ground up competition, so if you fall off (or rest) you must lower to the ground before starting another attempt.

As well as the raffle prizes, there are also ropes up for grabs to the top scoring climbers in each category.

Monday 17 January 2011




The Foundry hosted round three of the Winter Bouldering League on Friday night.


We've posted the results (both for that round, and league results so far....) on the web.

Click here to view them!



In the meantime, here's a few photo's from the night.


The next and final round of the Winter Bouldering League is on February 11th...


... Be there!

Aidan Cross on Problem 15 - the double dyno!
Adam Hodgson on the Bleaustone Wall


Neil and Rob on hand to draw prizes


Photography © Tom Napier