moominmolly and n and i got memberships at brooklyn boulders, a nearby indoor climbing gym, for the winter, as a way to get some exercise despite the world being cold and, ultimately, snow-bound. since memberships at climbing gyms are pretty expensive, we proceeded to climb a lot. i've been most days this year so far ( Read more... )

( snarking about silks )

four storey elevator shaft (at a climbing gym). apparently this is the way to get my body to tell me when i'm being lazy and using strength to get through things and it's totally fine but it isn't going to keep being fine for another three storeys so cut it out already.

went climbing last night with bbbsg and her friend jasmine, who... apparently has no friends she didn't meet climbing. she's pretty graceful on the wall, unsurprisingly. and has nice lats ( Read more... )

went to the climbing gym again this weekend. natalie wasn't interested in climbing this time, though she did seem interested that there were a lot of other kids there, most looking to be about 8. oh also she did at one point, in bare feet, do a basic stand on a pair of ropes, a little ways up in the air (she asked me to boost her up). i'll get ( Read more... )

++ lots more climbing this weekend, including twice yesterday.
+ moominmolly's lured spike into joining us. soon you will all be assimilated ( Read more... )

moominmolly discovered that as bu staff she can get her family memberships to the bu gym, which is pretty nice... and which has a climbing wall and rents climbing gear. this is orders of magnitude cheaper than metrorock. (even a 1-day guest pass can work out to be cheaper, depending on the day; especially if you rent gear ( Read more... )

last weekend, moominmolly and i took advantage of dancingwolfgrrl's kind offer to spend a weekend out of town alone together to celebrate our anniversary. we wound up getting a hotel room with a hot tub :) in manchester, and spent a good chunk of saturday at a climbing gym there in the former-factories-converted-to-loft-offices district ( Read more... )