Email: chairperson@sligoclimbingclub.ie
Pillar: Community
Address: 113, Rusheen Árd, Caltragh, Sligo F91 D3TT
The club’s purpose is to provide opportunities for people in the Sligo area to enjoy climbing and develop their climbing skills. We meet regularly for different types of climbing. Most of these can be done both indoors and outdoors: Bouldering. This is low level climbing (5 metres max) without ropes but with safety mats to protect falls. Top roping. Higher climbs where you are secured on a safety rope so you can’t fall. Trad climbing. Traditional roped climbing where you place small anchors (nuts and cams) in cracks in the rock as you climb, clipping the rope to them to catch you in case of a fall. Sport climbing. Like trad climbing, but the anchors are already in place, permanently bolted to the wall or the rock.