Next time you want to play golf, don’t forget the long rope, hooks and the carabiners.

Staff at Rocket Golf, also known as the Northwest Driving Range, will, however, be ready if you do. After all, their new climbing wall is meant to be fun for whoever has the moxie to try it.

Kirk Loudon said they bought the 24-foot-tall portable wall last October, ready for the busy time.

“That’s in June, when the kids get out of school,” Loudon said.

It’s all part of a plan to try and offer something for everybody.

“I believe it’s got challenges for experts as well as beginners,” Loudon said. “It’s as difficult or easy as you want it to be.”

They bought it from Spectrum Sports, one of only a few companies that offers a portable version that Rocket Golf can rent out and take to parties and get-togethers.

More than 15 years ago the Rocket Golf center started as a driving range. The 18-hole miniature golf Timber Falls Putting Course came just a few years later. They built it with mischief on their mind. Since then, the business has had its twists and turns and hit against windmill blades. That’s why the plan from the start has been to expand.

Along with that climbing wall came a gyro-chair.

“You strap in and it spins on two different axis. It’s just all a part of what we’re trying to offer.”

In other words, this isn’t a place for serious golf, though Loudon is behind Power Tool golf clubs, sold at Gold Mountain and the Rocket Golf pro shops.

“If you’ve lived in Kitsap for long you know there’s not a lot to do,” Loudon said. That’s just the way it is.”

Kirk and Devon Loudon are doing their best to change that.

“Next we’ve got go-carts coming,” Loudon said, “though that’s a couple of years down the road.”

It seems they’ve always had family in mind. The prices are right. It costs $3 to climb the wall. For a “round” of golf he cost is $6 for adults and $4 for kids 12 and under.

Rocket Golf is located at 368 NE Waaga Way in Silverdale and can be reached at (360) 692-6828.

(Editor’s Note: Temple A. Stark is a free-lance writer living in Kent. Reach him at writer@templestark.com).