Climbing Hut Ellesmere Port

We’re open as usual this bank holiday, serving up climbs, coffee, and pizza! 🍕

Plus from the 25th, we’re opening from 9am every day throughout half term! See you on the walls ✌️

Goat Fest Finals boulders are sticking around for ONE more week! 🐐

You’ve got until Wednesday (27/05) evening to get stuck into the blocs set by Nathan, Sammy, Tom, and Fin before we reset for Krimptonite!

With our Summer League kicking off next Friday (29/05), the comp wall will be stripped next Thursday, so this is your final chance to send those Goat Fest projects. 💥

Get down, get stuck in, and tick off those last sends before they’re gone! 👊

What a day Goat Fest 2026 turned out to be! Huge sends, near misses, loud cheers, and unforgettable moments from start to finish. Thank you to everyone who came down and made it so special. 🐐❤️

With 217 athletes competing this year, the level of climbing on display was unreal. Every competitor brought the energy, pushed hard, and left everything out there. You should all be seriously proud of your efforts. 👏

It was amazing to see so many familiar faces returning from last year’s comp alongside loads of new climbers joining us for the first time. Whether you were competing, judging, or cheering from the sidelines, you helped make Goat Fest something really special.

A massive shoutout to our judges for volunteering their time and helping make the finals such an incredible spectacle. We appreciate every single one of you. 🙏

Huge thanks as well to all of the staff working tirelessly behind the scenes, setting up, resetting blocs, organising athletes, sorting scores, running the desk, and keeping the whole event flowing all day long. Events like this only happen because of an amazing team, and we’re incredibly grateful for every one of you. 🫶

And of course, a huge thank you to our sponsors: .climbing for giving every athlete a bag of chalk, plus sponsoring the U17 winners with a year’s supply of chalk; and for donating amazing prizes; and for supplying awesome holds for the setters to work their magic with; and .8b for making the cutest climbing jewellery around! Your support helped make this year’s event bigger and better than ever. ❤️

And the best part? All qualifying and finals blocs are still up for everyone to get stuck into… so if there’s one you didn’t quite send, now’s your chance. 👀

We’re open as usual this bank holiday, serving up climbs, coffee, and pizza! 🍕

See you on the walls✌️

📢 Important news, everyone!

Next week, there’ll be some disruptions at the centre as we get ready for Goat Fest! 🐐

In the lead-up to the big day, we’ve had to shake up the setting schedule a bit. That means there won’t be a fresh set on Tuesday; instead, the setters will be stripping the comp wall.

From Wednesday onwards, competitors for Goat Fest won’t be allowed into the centre while we set the qualifying and finals blocs. This includes anyone booked onto a NICAS session from Wednesday onwards. Please speak to a member of staff about arranging a catch-up session.

Qualifying boulders will be set throughout the gym, so setters will be spot-stripping walls and setting the finals climbs.

Here’s the exciting part! 🥳

From Sunday, the comp wall will be packed with all the finals boulders, alongside 30+ new qualifying blocs across the centre, that’s over 50 new problems for everyone to try! 🧗‍♂️
As for Saturday the 9th, Goat Fest will be busy! So if you are competing or coming down to show your support, make sure you leave enough time to find parking. Some areas will be closed to the public for the competition. However, the Cave, Slab, Gym, Kilter Board, MoonBoard, Hardwood Holds Board, and the Shutter Wall corridor will all still be open and ready for action. 💪

One week left to get your Goat Fest ticket! 🐐🎟️

Sunday, May 3rd is your final chance to enter the ultimate youth climbing comp.

The team has been hard at work behind the scenes over the past few months, and we’re beyond psyched to show you what we have in store 🙌

With support from our awesome sponsors .climbing , , , , , and , we’ll have the best holds for you to climb on, amazing prizes up for grabs, and to top it all off, every entrant gets a free bag of Psychi chalk!

Lock in your ticket, test yourself against the best, and we’ll see you on Saturday, May 9th at Climbing Hut Ellesmere Port. Link in bio 👊

We’ve also had a change to our setting team for Goat Fest: Nathan Phillips will be joining us in place of Ross. is a 2x UK champion and a UK national setter, bringing a wealth of experience both competing and setting at championships and major competitions.

We can’t wait to see what the setters cook up for you all!

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