Membership.
As a member of our group, you will have free access (providing a
SIO/sports centre membership, see below) to four different climbing
walls/rooms: We have a climbing wall in the old gym at Blindern Athletica
(BA), a bouldering room in the same building, and another wall with a
bouldering area at Centrum Athletica (CA) downtown.
A membership in OSI Klatregruppa costs 375NOK per semester, which will allow you to climb for free at the mentioned facilities, attend various climbing courses held by Klatregruppa, and come along on different climbing trips. As a member you will also be able to borrow equipment for indoor climbing. You can get your membership online on the OSI Main Page.
Access.
To gain access to the facilities and the free climbing, you'll also need a
SiO Student Sports-membership card. This card gives you access to all
three of the Athletica training-facilities, which include swimming pools,
aerobic halls, gyms and more. The price of this card unfortunately depends
on where you study, and varies from 650NOK (Students belonging to SiO), including the University of Oslo) to
1250-1800NOK (Students or others not belonging to SiO). The SiO Student
Sports centre membership card is bought at one of the Athletica
facilities. Remember to bring your student identity card and your semester
card.
Brattkort (climbing certificate)
If you already have the memberships needed, and you want to rope climb
indoors, you.ll need something called a Bratt kort ("steep card").
A Bratt
kort is a certificate of your belaying abilities. This card is required at
most climbing facilities in Oslo, and as a member of Klatregruppa you can
get yours for free.
If you are an experienced belayer, meet up at Centrum Athletica Tuesdays or Thursdays between 18 and 21. There will be instructors there who can run a short test of your belaying, and then issue a certificate if you are qualified. This card is only given to members of the climbing group
Courses
If you are completely new to climbing, or a beginner wanting to learn
more, you should start off by attending one of our four hour beginner
courses, which currently costs 300NOK. OSI Klatregruppa arranges courses
weekly the first weeks of the semester, and in addition to you learning
all that is needed to start climbing safely with a friend, the courses are
also a great place to meet other climbers on your level. After having
completed the course, you can meet up at the mentioned Tuesdays or
Thursdays and perform the Bratt kort-test. You will find a complete course
listing under Kurs. The planned beginner
courses for the spring semester
2012 are:
Website.
Our webpage is updated in Norwegian, and to keep up with what’s going on, learn some Norwegian or even better, get acquainted with a Norwegian. On our website there are three pages that'll help keep you in the loop:
Questions not answered in this short info, can be posed to either the person in charge of the courses, Stine Weltzien (stineweltzien@gmail.com), or the leader of OSI Klatregruppa, Alexander Svensen (alexander.sven@gmail.com).
