Indoor Caving Gym?

[jumar]

http://tinyurl.com/27udme


[quote]Young people in night of honour
By Samantha Shale

A GROUP of teenagers who designed an indoor caving experience which all young people can use had their achievement celebrated last night.

The seven young people, who met at Blakewater College, formed an Adventure Learning Club based in Shadsworth, Blackburn, to help young people prepare for the real thing.

The group take part in a variety of adventure sports such as snowboarding and archery and decided to make three-storey caving an adventure experience all young people could enjoy.

Their achievement was recognised at The Blackburn with Darwen Youth Service Awards at King George's Hall, Blackburn.

The group are Dominic Wright, 16, Anthony Hargreaves, 17, Laura Hillary, 16, Luke Parker, 16, Kim Chapman, Leigh Nicholson, 17 and Mark Parkinson, 18.

Dominic said: "We wanted to do caving and it's expensive so you cannot expect people to pay for it, so this will be free.

"We applied to the Youth Opportunities Fund to help us build it ourselves."

The project was funded by

[txoutdoorx4]

Very cool article Jeff, thanks for posting it. Are you aware of anything similiar here in the states?

[jumar]

Not that I'm aware of. Maybe someone should do one here in Utah. :haha:

It would probably lose it's appeal pretty quick. With a climbing gym you can at least rearrange the hand holds to keep it interesting. But they wouldn't be able to change the whole cave system (crawls, drops etc). It would be great for training though! Like with the scout training this weekend, something like this would be pretty cool.