As bonjoy and Stubbs. I'd rather climbing walls were not cold.
I'm with Moose. Can't stand over cold conditions at the wall. Life's too short to spend more than an hour warming up at a wall. I'm happy to have body/muscle optimum conditions rather than hold/rubber optimum, even if that makes some slopers less useable. Cool but not baltic AND ventilation is preferable.
I'd guess at between 5 and 12 degrees being good. However this means in an ideal world walls acting to raise temps on some days including keeping windows closed if needed.
When >= 80% of users wish them to be.
Got to have a clear majority.
Quote from: slack---line on February 13, 2012, 04:35:40 pmGot to have a clear majority. It'd be a brave manager who ignored half his customers.How about 50% but any knob turning up in shorts in Feb then moaning just gets politely directed to the shop :-)
The real problem with modern (London) climbing walls is that they are great training for 7a at Kalymnos, aka swinging around on blobs and generally having a laugh, but extremely poor preparation for UK trad. and sport routes, anything crimpy and vertical.
I go indoors to avoid cold. I want to climb at normal room temperature. Have a good three or so hours of continual cranking and go home to feed my aching muscles with cake - without having to dive into a downie between every go. Maybe I've got oddly dry skin (I only sweat to a problematic degree in direct sunlight in summer) but I find that dirty, infrequently changed holds impact my performance far more than a few degrees Centigrade. Any tiny differential in friction is more than compensated for by increased dynamism and limberness. Basically, if the staff are wearing downies they should install some more heating!