No, this is not the one in LR. That one is yet to be opened yet. I hope it looks kind of like this one, but it won't be as big. This was the "Iron Works Climbing Gym" in Oakland California. They have several world famous climbers who train there, including a brother/sister climbing duo who garnered noteriety for climbing in a restricted country a few years back, got captured, tortured, and escaped hiking and free soloing cliffs out of that region and finding their way to an American Embassy. There is also a guy who works out there who just recently broke the speed record for the Nose at El Cap, completing it in under 3 hours! It is a pretty hardcore group of climbers, I must say! I felt pretty pathetic struggling on my 5.9's.
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