Show rt : f & - i - 4 j - ' i - T r a f ' 'rf ' Crossword 23 " ’ t t v ' - n : 0 ' : sl & ::AA f A A ' ' s f 5: ‘i r i’i i 4 - ! VV- 4 '' ' r - j1' ' " Mf’ 1 ( 19 4 t 1996 "About a year ago Dave presented the idea of i"putting in a bouldexing cave on this side of the eoplri win be literally hanging around downtown Ixmhui and getting a workout a new climbing gym opens its doon V ‘ this week ' I ' Adventure Spoiti Rock Climbing Gym 51 S- ’ Main Sl will operate much like local fitness chibs that offer monthly Sod annual memberships “Once they tee the potential of the exercise” peo-‘ pie will get hooked on die sport uid gym er “One ofthe big things u they’re finding that anaerobic exercise ia the key to losing weight as opposed to aerobic exercise like they preached for years and years And climbing is one of the most anaerobic sports ' you can get involved in It’s OJ 5 i v The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday March - ' - “ H V"- ' ji ’l' h y x - - J ' - " ' - - lj'wlwi Udettes gym fills the store where bis partner Dave Newman bad bicycles “L commercial gMmWnj gym in Logan The bicycles have been " I1 moved to a shop on North ' : Main Street and those climbing panels were taken apart and incorporated in the new ' just storerhe added “At Out time I started thinking about what it would look like to put an entire gym in I did find myself going to various gyms and not only climbing in them but looking at what was behind the walls” Odette hai 21 yean of climbing experience He hai climbed routes rated at aome of the most cult levela in ipoit climbing — 513d on the climbers' scale He has more than SO first ascents to his name including some routes in the Tetons where he climbed Grand Teton on two different routes in the winter ir He has also summitted Denali the highest mountain in North America Today Odette is hoping El Nifio provides a wet spring in Cache Valley so climbers will start their season indoon before venturing out to V v the local rocks is But he said "it’s not a critical tte -- ' with one we’re going to have construction up there and! two a lot of us work till 3 or 6 in the evening so you can pop in here and in two hours you can get twice the work-- design"'--:'v'v ‘ “Jay Goodwin he’s the incredible genius behind the ' i: fimnework” Odette said “My wifo actuaDy did an out" v:- ' auto-ca-d ‘ And people don’t have to be experts to use the drawing and the basic concept design And kvthen Jay just kind of wem from that aiid built in a gym r ‘' lot more of these features and unique angles and so V “One of the comments I get when people firet walk in here if they’re a beginner they're kind of nuiMM gauur ua pmi uiuuiui vuuBMUM vuAur ' inhmiHatai by the steep angle" hesaiilThere’sa ing a gym about a year ago from the ground up But couple of reasons we went with so much overhang-tha- t project apparently fell through ingmateriaL “I thcuit this woidd be a good dace for a gym “One is that it’s actually safer because if you fall and affordable" Odette said “That was kind of I ' you fall sway from the walL TVo most gyms that think the problem with die other gym They were have vertical areas or slab areas they’re die least : used talking a quarter of a million dollar gym" “We made it easier for beginners by putting larger He’s been studying other climbing gyms not just r from a climber’s but from a builder’s : holds in places so you can climb on pretty much v perspective fl v:': any wall on the bigger holds” VA '': point of view ' v-Tve been doing that for a long time actually — f Riit from the very beginner who has never f V before dus just for the idea that sonxday l’d even touched nx± to the moat elite climber who climbs at the 514 level can get a work out in here” build a gym or get involved with a gym" -- r'T" v-- v f 'V 'Si'l ' At —ar-- e:aramra8MMwawra ' V S ' m w ‘ 4 ' I J J 4 V - !‘V ’t’ -- ! f I J 'A ‘ - ‘iV r- - 4 ‘ t ! pi e ' Features: j t v'l tbaftAaMiM ti’m V iAnra W ' f Monday Homefronts Oldtei but v- ir''- 'I' — 'Vt ! - ':1tosaidv?vV1 - " - ' "" - r I 752-212- 1 |