rock climb

During a recent hike, we decided to go off the trail a bit and had to climb up a vertical rock face for a bit. It was only about 6 feet, but still, it was nice.
Sadly I haven’t been doing any indoor climbing since school ended and I no longer have climbing partners or a gym membership. That puts an outdoor climbing trip on hold for a fairly long time.

My gym is doing a several-day women’s trip at the end of July that is really appealing, but pretty expensive. I know several of my friends who climb want to try some outdoor routes so I want to look into how expensive it would be to just go somewhere ourselves for the afternoon. There is the slight problem that we’re all at different levels of climbing ability…

I have a membership to the climbing gym by school now and go at least once a week, but I don’t feel right crossing this off unless I actually climbed outside on real rocks.

I convinced my sister & two of her housemates to go to an indoor climbing gym today. It was so much fun! (I am going to be so sore tomorrow.)
Unfortunately I won’t have a chance to go with them again before I go home, and I don’t think I can find anyone at home to go with me. One of my friends works at a rock gym near where I go to school, but I don’t think I’ll have time to go regularly because of rugby.
But we’ll see how it works out. This’d be good for me, because upper-body strength is what I really need to work on the most.