Climb your dormitory
I’ve thought this was a good idea for a while, but I feel like the US is too litigious a society for actual implementation. Some lucky students in the Netherlands have their dorm outfitted with climbing holds:
Wouldn’t it be sweet if the side of the Green Building had holds bolted on? MITOC could administer it and everything (run training courses, provide equipment, etc. similar to how the bouldering room is currently run). Admittedly more realistic is something like this:
Until then, I’ll keep playing in the MIT bouldering room, on the chapel and the wall behind Bexley. Also, I’ll keep dreaming about REI or EMS installing one of these alongside their indoor sport climbing walls.
Artificial Ice Climbing
All photos taken from www.eikongraphia.com, photos link to the original posts in which they appear. Credit to the climbers [at] mit list and Jessica Lam for sparking this train of thought.