Mekanik Climbing

A small bouldering gym near Bölge metro

Mekanik Climbing is an independent bouldering gym in a ground-floor unit on 266. Sokak in Mansuroğlu, Bayraklı, on the Bornova border and about five minutes' walk from Bölge station on İzmir's metro. It started with a single wall and grew until climbing covered every wall of the unit, and it has been open since at least 2019.

Walls and training

The walls are painted in bold purple, green, yellow and orange, with murals and the gym's name painted between the holds, above thick matting. Problems are set in colour-coded circuits alongside mixed-hold problems.

For training there is:

• a MoonBoard
• a campus board with wooden rungs, pinch balls and edge blocks
• fingerboards for different levels

Visiting

On its winter timetable the gym opens on weekday evenings, from 18:00 to 21:00, and is closed at weekends. Hours have changed with the seasons before, so check the gym's Instagram account before a visit: there is no website and no published price list.

The paper guidebook to Kaynaklar, the limestone crag on the edge of İzmir with more than 200 routes, is sold at the gym, and so is liquid chalk.