Climbing wall assembly

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The magnetic climbing wall assembly of the invention comprises a plurality of wall panels, wall plates, hand holds and educational elements that permit numerous climbing routes to be created and used for educational purposes.
The climbing wall assembly may include adjoining wall panels with markable surfaces and/or molded wall panels having a surface with metallic or magnetic properties for use with magnetic or metallic, educational elements.
The climbing wall assembly further comprises the use of wall plates and hand holds which are preferably molded of a plastic composition which incorporate embedded metallic particles for use with magnetic educational elements.
The educational climbing wall assembly of the invention comprises wall panels, wall plates and hand holds are constructed and arranged to provide a climbing wall assembly that permits climbing routes to be created and changed and which permit magnetic pieces to be placed and moved on the wall assembly elements for recreational and educational purposes.
The wall panels of the invention include molded structures which have means to receive wall plates and hand holds at a plurality of predetermined positions.
Alternative wall panel structures are also disclosed.
Further, the wall panels have surfaces which may receive chalk markings, magnetic pieces and adhesive structures, such as stickers, tape, laminates, dry erase marker or write-on and wash off marker.
Further provided by this invention are methods of manufacturing the wall panels, wall plates and hand hold structures of the invention.
The wall or route plates used in the climbing wall assembly of the invention are designed for use in educational climbing wall activities.
The wall or route plates may be mounted between the climbing wall and the climbing hand hold and/or mounted separately to the climbing walls.
For example, 30 50 route plates may be used on a 40-foot traverse climbing wall and provides a number of climbing routes, i.
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, beginner, intermediate and advanced