Indoor Climbing: Need answers before 8pm Mountain time.?

Question

Im going climbing with one of my guy friends and im 5'3 about 135 and he is almost 6ft and probaly has a good 60 pounds on me.

Im going to Rock'n and Jam'n. We don't have a 3rd person to anchor me down, do indoor places have devices attacted to the ground to anchor?
Im new to climbing and I think those exist, I think I remeber seeing them there when I went with my rock climbing class in school last year.

Im an 18 year old girl btw. he is the same age.

Im an 18 year old girl btw. he is the same age.

Answer 1

Most do have anchor points on the ground. If not see if an employee of the gym could either back you up belaying or offer a solution.

Answer 2

It doesn't matter that he's bigger, you can still catch him on lead (you'll just go flying up to the first bolt, so be ready). Botls are always close together in a gym anyways, so there won't be any big falls. You wouldn't want to be anchored down when he's leading because you wouldn't absorb much of the fall with your mass. Especially with those silly GriGri devices they make you use, because those things don't allow any rope through during a fall, they just lock right up.

For TR, they likely have ground anchors, so you won't have anything attached to you while belaying.

Answer 3

For the top rope routes, they have to have a way to anchor the belayer to the floor because a falling climber could pull you all the way to the ceiling - ask the gym staff how to anchor.

For lead routes, they often don't have anchors because the climber can only pull you up to the first bolt and usually the belayer wants to lift off the ground to soften the impact for the falling climber.

Good Luck