Hey Plastic Pullers...What's A Membership Cost ??

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rwedgee

Ice climber
canyon country,CA
Topic Author's Original Post - May 14, 2013 - 11:47pm PT
Finally a gym is opening near me and I just saw the price...$630 for a year or $62 a month with a $50 initiation fee. Seems kind of steep for any kind of gym let alone a climbing gym that has 30' walls. They better give one hell of a foot massage, even better than Jules the foot f%cking Master.
http://topoutclimbing.com/
Dapper Dan

Trad climber
Menlo Park
May 15, 2013 - 12:03am PT
$73 a month here in Bay Area , Planet Granite chain , three gyms , 60+ foot walls . Yea it's 'steep'
billygoat

climber
Pees on beard to seek mates.
May 15, 2013 - 12:04am PT
Climbing gyms, by default, have a much higher overhead than typical gyms. Expect to pay more. 62 sounds good for a 11,500 sq. ft. facility. If yoga is included, then it's a steal as most Yoga memberships start at over $100.
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
May 15, 2013 - 12:40am PT
Yeah, it seems like an outrageous amount... Until you start doing a little math.

Think about what you would charge for a membership if you had taken a lease on that place, built all the walls, hired the staff...
10b4me

Ice climber
Soon 2B Arizona
May 15, 2013 - 12:42am PT
Some where between $50 and $60 seems to be the going rate
MisterE

Social climber
May 15, 2013 - 12:54am PT
Your pride, your tendons, your sense of adventure, your ability to read natural lines, your perception of the climbing world as an unsafe place...

Should I go on about the cost of gym memberships? I haven't even gotten to cash yet.
Chris Cunningham

Trad climber
San Francisco
May 15, 2013 - 01:20am PT
Only the uncool climb outside...skip the ants, rattlesnakes and people hating falcons.
Good looking, cool people climb in comfortable gyms with handy bathrooms and cool (way cool!) piped-in music.
Pay whatever the gyms need to keep your bad a$$ 5.12d++ self comfy and safe.
TheTye

Trad climber
Sacramento CA
May 15, 2013 - 10:30am PT
68$ here at Sacramento Pipeworks. It's alot but they have pretty big walls, a nice bouldering area, a good gym and a ton of difforent classes from spin to yoga to ju-jitsu. I also heard rumor that they are going to put in a pool with a deep water soloing wall above it... which would help out quite a bit with stomaching the steep cost.
Elcapinyoazz

Social climber
Joshua Tree
May 15, 2013 - 10:52am PT
$300/yr in the gym I use in Riverside. That's with a pre-paid year, and buying the membership during their annual birthday sale.

I think if you went monthly plan, it would be ~$45 with an autobilling scheme. It is on the small side for a modern gym, and while there are roped climbs in there, the focus is more on bouldering.

The other gym in Riverside is substantially more expensive (and larger), but their membership also includes 3 gym in total (which is kind of "so what" unless you live midway between a couple of them). I think they run about $650/yr for an annual.
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