Ratho Gets Wood-fired Pizza Base :-)

Good news from the giant Ratho Adventure Centre at Ratho near Edinburgh, not only has the heavy machinery been cleared from the massive climbing arena formed by the covered quarry, but you can now eat out on pizza produced in a real, wood-fired oven in the now fully-operational Stone Room Cafe.

When we got a scoop preview of the centre last year, we were blown away, not just by the scale of the climbing arena - which is massive and feels more outdoors than in - but by the overall vision of the facility, which is multi-sport and promises to be much more than 'just' a climbing wall.

The Stone Room restaurant produces, they reckon, 'arguably the best pizza base this side of Rome' but also offers fireside dining complete with leather loungers, hot pancakes and beer. Sounds like a great post-training option and joins the Ledge Cafe in the Gore-Tex Arena.

More Climbing, More Training...

Before the heavy cranes left the building, the route setters put up and extra 30 routes on the main competition wall giving even more scope for hard indoor climbing. In addition, the Adventure Sports Gym is up and running with a whole range of classes kicking in over the coming weeks. Looks good.

Evening Lectures Too

There's also a programme of evening lectures in February with speakers like top climber Steve McClure. More details on the web site.

If you're local to Ratho or plan to be just passing by, you can get full details of the facilities, costs, opening hours etc at the Ratho Adventure Centre web site.