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Squamish: The Sea-to-Sky Adventure Getaway
Break a Sweat
Scale the Speed Wall at Richmond Olympic Oval
The 2010 Olympics left Richmond a world-class climbing wall and badminton courts, which is a small cheat code very few people are using.
Break a Sweat
The 2010 Olympics left Richmond a world-class climbing wall and badminton courts, which is a small cheat code very few people are using.
In 2010 the Olympics left Richmond a genuinely superb multi-sport complex, and most people have been driving past it for sixteen years without going inside. The Oval's climbing wall runs 31 routes with autobelays, top-rope and lead lines, and the tallest speed wall in Metro Vancouver. The challenge scales whether your date is a chalk-bag regular or has genuinely never touched a hold. No booking required: drop in on a single-day pass, and the same ticket covers table tennis, the track, and a spontaneous badminton grudge match once you've climbed yourselves out. One admission for a frankly unreasonable amount of activity. It is also the likeliest reason you'll stay three hours longer than planned and discover the other person takes badminton quite a lot more seriously than they've let on.
