Plezant Blok

Good fun at Boulder Gym 'Klimzaal Blok' in Antwerp. Exciting walls, from smaller to larger height, from pillar to grapefruit shaped walls. And the route setters know how the use the lay-out: some creative and nice routes! Would love to come back!

The goal of the Bouldertour 2017 is to boulder in all European capitals (well for practical reasons 'only' the first half, alphabetically by country name in Dutch) This also includes Belgium, however, we could not find any boulder gyms there! Luckily Antwerp has enough to offer for an enthousiastic climber, and we could not help but find out how the gyms are there!

The boulder gym is in a small village 'Hoboken' in the city. Cosy and green, while hosting a bike contest and being 30 degrees outside: we enjoyed the surroudings.

The gym is quite big, with a kids area, small bar, changing rooms plus showers inside a container, a slack line and a nice bouldering area. All in all it had an alternative vibe: good fun! Only down side is that we are so eager to climb the routes that we do not check how to get back on the ground after topping the route. Not that many down-climbing options and the higher routes results in a higher than comfortable fall. 

We had a good bouldering session!