Best Mountaineering Class Saint Louis Near Me

Eliot Rocks: I want to preface this review by saying, the climbing here is great, starting with phenomenal routesetting. There were problems with very complex beta. There were about 7 or 8 that looked like fun multi-session projects. I sadly can't do that since I'm traveling. But it would be very fun to climb here on a regular basis to get to know the style of these routesetters. They have obvious strength in slopers, core tention, campusing, and heel hooking. There is a variety of textures on the holds. So iLL holds are featured, but they have many brands represented on the wall.Got a day pass for $20. Great bouldering wall. They have slab, a 45° and everything in between. The walls are very textured. They have a lot of volumes. The holds are very grippy, I used up almost all my skin in my 2 hour session. The grading is consistent and accurate. I was able to flash most of the problems below my grade level, and got a few at my level. The harder problems such as the V8+ black tags were indeed difficult, but I was still able to do one or two moves on them. So there certainly was an endurance aspect to some of the harder climbs. They used many good sets of holds on the easier problems which is rare to see, but cool for the newer climbers to experience these modern holds. Overall the setting is very good. They could certainly put up more problems, especially on the slab. On one slab wall there were only 2 boulder problems. The majority of the boulders were very low percentage, there weren't many small crimps.Staff was friendly, good shop with many shoe and gear purchase selections. The bathrooms were very clean. The building is an old converted powerplant, and they left most of the historic architecture, which is very cool.I'm excited to check out the other So iLL locations in St. Louis, and look forward to visiting this location again soon!

Michael Taber: Love this place.