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May 1st 2017 - Roos de Boer

We found the bouldering gyms of Vilnius and Riga! In Vilnius it is in the basement of a building 15 minutes from the city center. Vilnius is nice compact and hosts a small and cosy bouldering gym! 

Introduced as the place where bouldering started in Lithuania we found a great place climbed by great people. Both friendly and knew what they were doing while warming up, during climbing and training. Inspiring to be part of for one day!

The gym was crowded - at the crazy times the bouldering gym was open to free climbing. It is closed during classes because of the size, and on Saturday only open for groups/birthday parties. We hit the Friday evening spot!

The routes were a bit "messy" but we found several fun labeled routes, and done a lot of transversing. Or making up own routes which we are getting quite creative at. Nice place, we may come back!
In Riga we had 20 hours to find the bouldering gym and have a good night sleep. Which made looking for the gym even more exciting: they moved to a new address and once at the new address we finally found the entrance behind a big building:

Bouldering gym Falkors is small but with good routes and nice climbers. We had a fine bouldering session there! The routes start with a label indicating the level, followed by the holds of the same colour. Nice balance of being flexible with the limited supply of holds and how handy it is for the climber. Small space but complete offer: showers, lockers (nice!) and routes, unfortunately no coffee :)

We had a good time, now off to Tallinn!

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