Today I am thankful for my climbing gym. We took Morgan this afternoon, and they gave her a harness to try out even though she doesn't weigh enough to reliably come down when slack is given in the rope (it's okay, she wasn't climbing any higher than our heads anyway, so if she'd gotten stuck we would have been able to pull her down). A most ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I did a climbing post.

Today I climbed things! Most of them were 5.11s! I feel fantastic! (Endorphins do things to your brain ( Read more... )

Friday night, a kid climbing the crack wall did a hand jam incorrectly and got himself stuck. They had to send up a staff member with a bottle of soap to slick things up enough that he could pull his hand free, and in the meantime he was in pain and also really freaked out ( Read more... )

Today I went climbing for the first time in four and a half months. Boy, I needed that.

My unhappiest parts are my toes, which got unused to climbing shoes, and the skin on my fingers, which got unused to belaying. Calluses... I remember those....

All last week, I was felled by Horrible Disease, so I did not get to go climbing at all. Today I am better, so we fixed that. While I was sick, my new full-body climbing harness arrived, so today was the first day I got to try it out ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I warmed up on a 5.10c. (I had to cheat on one move -- I don't know what the story is there, because the angles just don't seem to work out without being a few inches taller, and they're usually good about keeping things possible for the under-six-foot crowd. Maybe a hold got turned; if that right handhold had been sideways instead of ( Read more... )

I have been up to everything lately. Here we go ( Read more... )

We have entered the dark time of year ( Read more... )

Went climbing yesterday.

Have this to say:

ELEVEN!

Ha!

andres_s_p_b made fun of my victory dance. :P to him.

I went climbing Wednesday and climbed many difficult things, leaving interesting new parts of my shoulders sore today. So my plan for today's climbing was to do easy things.

I was bad at following this plan... but very good at climbing. 5.10d! Go me!

(I really need a climbing icon. Somebody remind me to bring my camera next week.)