Catherine`s outdoor climbing pics

Thanks Catherine for sending your pictures, what was Dee thinking!!

Outdoor climbing

I hope you all had a fantastic time outdoors on Saturday. If anyone has any photos of the day, could you please email them or I can copy them off your camera.
sharon@roperace.co.uk

Hannah Reedy

Well done Hannah for getting your Bronze Geckos Award.
Happy Climbing!!!

Platinum Award

Well done Liam for gaining your Platinum Award last week & modelling the new Geckos T`shirt

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SUMMER OUTDOOR CLIMBING

We will be running the first of our summer outdoor climbing days on Saturday 23rd June. As places are limited contact the centre soon as possible.

Julia

Congratulations Julia for getting your gold Geckos award

Silver

Well done for gaining your silver Geckos award

Catherines BRYCS pictures

Thanks to Catherine for sending me her pictures from the BRYCS round at Manchester

BRYCS

Well done!! to all the Geckos who entered this months BRYCS competition. A special congratulations to Elissa Bryant and Charlotte Garden who now will be competing at the finals.

13-15 years Charlotte Garden - 2nd

13-15 years Catherine Burgess - 9th

13-15 years Ben Hazelby - 7th

10-12 years Shelly Pickles - 4th

10-12 years Jennifer Wood - 8th

7-9 years Elissa Bryant - 3rd

BRYCS

Congratulations!!!

We'd like to say a big well done to all the Geckos who are competing in the BRYCS at the minute.

BRYCS stands for British Regional Youth Climbing Series, and climbers from all over the country are competing in their regions for a place at the grand final in Ratho, Edinburgh. Only the top three from each region get through to the final so the competition is pretty tough.

Rope Race has 6 Geckos competing at BRYCS in different age categories, they have completed 2 rounds out of the 3 that they have to attend at different climbing centres across the North West. So congratulations to -

Elissa Bryant (Girls category age 7 - 9) Currently ranked 3rd

Shelley Pickles (Girls category age 10 - 12) Currently ranked 5th

Jennifer Wood (Girls category age 10 - 12) Currently ranked 13th

Charlotte Garden (Girls category age 13 - 15) Currently ranked 1st

Catherine Burgess (Girls category age 13 - 15) Currently ranked 9th

Ben Hazelby (Boys category age 13 - 15) Currently ranked 7th

The ranking they get is a combination of their positions at the first 2 rounds, were very proud of them all.

Elissa Bryant has written this about her day in Rochdale -

My Climbing at Rochdale BRYCS Round 2

24th March 2007

We left home at 8.20am and arrived at Climb Rochdale, looked around and registered.

First we started stretches in a big hall and then we went out into our groups and the 13 - 15 girls and boys went to the bouldering but I started with top rope routes.

The first route was purple and like a warm up it was easy. The second route was a bit harder and it yellow, nearly everyone in my group did it. The third one was the hardest and that was blue, I went to the top.

After this we had a break for lunch.

Then we went upstairs to the bouldering room and the first route everyone did. The second one was a tiny bit harder but good. The third one I nearly gave my mum a heart attack because I nearly fell off the wall but I didnt and I got to the top.

I was in joint 1st position with a girl called Lucy and we had to do an age 10 - 12 top-rope climb off. I nearly went to the top but Lucy didnt get as far so I came in first place!

It was a really fun day and it was great to win.

Good luck to everyone competing in the third and final North West round on April 28th.

Awards!

These two happy chappies completed their Gecko Awards last week!

Congratulations to Michael Carr for getting his Bronze Award and to Jacob Murray for getting his Silver Award!

Pictures from the Geckos Xmas Party

Geckos Xmas Party Pics!







Leon looking very striking as a hippy boy!












Megan and Charlie posing as Santa for the Reindeer and the Elves, looking very convincing!


As the Elves and the Reindeer line up for the competition; who can dress santa first???

Katy and Hollie overseeing a good game of splat!

Some of our rogues from junior Climbing looking great in their fancy dress.

Geckos Xmas Party!

We all had a brilliant time, despite the war between the Elves and the Reindeer a truce was called in time for some party food!

Both teams did brilliantly in the games and congratulations to both teams who drew in the end.

After the party food we all split in to age groups and competed for the prestigious title of Christmas Climbing Champion. Everybody did excellently but the winners were;

Kate's Crew: 1st Place = Elissa Bryant

2nd Place = Bethan Greer

Hollie's Homies: 1st Place = Shelley Pickles

2nd Place = Julia Smith

Russ' Rabble: Bouldering = Oscar Penkethman

Climbing = Hannah Smith

A big well done to everyone, thankyou for making the party a great night! We hope everyone had a brilliant Xmas and wish everyone a Happy New Year!

Keep an eagle out for the pictures, which will be posted on the blog shortly ;)

Children in Need Pirate Night

Ooh argh me hearties!!! Sponsored pirate night was a huge success, we raised lots of money for Children in Need and the sponsorships are still coming in!!!! Everyone made such an amazing effort with their costumes. The Rope Race Team want to thank you all for such a fun night, we hope that you all enjoyed yourselves.

Blindfolded climbing was just one of the many challenges that we set for the Geckos and it went down a storm!!

Check out these two, three legged climbing, thats a different way to get up a wall!!!!

pictures of the abseiling night

Results of Bouldering Challenge from last week

Well done to everyone!

1st Place = Kez 123 points

2nd Place = Max Wilkinson 122 points

3rd Place = Ozzy Penkethman 94 points

4th Place = Shelley pickles 90 points

5th Place = Adam Clark 88 points

6th Place = Chris Clark 87 points

7th Place = Neil Bennet 57 points

8th Place = Amy O'Connor 40 points

9th Place = Jennifer Wood 37 points

9th Place = Hayley Clark 37 points

11th Place = Scott bennet 21 points

11th Place = Jessica Hosler 21 points

12th Place = Leon Hamnet 5 points

Geckos Get Outside!

Saturday November 25th

We know it's cold but now is the ideal time to get out in the Peaks and get climbing on some real Gritstone.

Whether you're new to the outdoors and want to give it a try or a Platinum Gecko looking to tick off some stages, this day is for everyone.

If you've already started lead climbing we're going to teach you about the equipment outdoors and how to use it, you can put your platinum skills to the test and start helping us to anchor the belayer, and set up releasable abseils.

We'll be meeting at Rope Race at 10am, gathering our kit and having a briefing, then we'll travel out together in parents cars. We will be due back to Rope Race at 4pm at the end of a hard days climb.

The price of the day is £30 and is dependant on enough parent helpers offering transport.

Booking is essential! So phone the centre now to reserve your place! 0161 426 0226

Essential Kit Advice :

ITS GOING TO BE COLD! Bring lots of layers, a hat, gloves and a very warm coat! Waterproofs are essential items as well. If you've got any of your own climbing kit bring that along with you. Make sure you bring a large lunch, including a flask of hot drink. And don't forget your smile!

Geckos Elite Platinum Nights!!!

Congratulations! To all those Geckos who have completed or who are near to completing their Gold award! If thats you - read on....

More and more of you are becoming brilliant climbers, and we want to take you to the next level.
If you haven't tried leading yet - we'll get you started, if you want to continue to improve, we're here to help.
We have organised a series of Geckos Elite nights to help you to start/complete your Platinum Award. We will have instructors on hand to put you through the stages. And as an added incentive we will also be setting up an abseil so that you can either learn the basics or put your existing skills to the test.

The Vital Info -

• The first Platinum night will be on Friday November 10th
• There will be 2 sessions: 5pm - 7pm and 7pm - 9pm
• It will cost the same as your normal Geckos session
• Booking is advisable!

Contact the centre NOW for more info - 0161 426 0226

New Geckos Blog!

It has arrived to keep you updated on whats going on for you Geckos!

All of our special nights, bouldering competions, christmas parties and outdoor days will be posted up on here so keep your eyes peeled! We've got loads of stuff coming up over the next few weeks so get involved!