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.
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It includes a free week of climbing so i’ll do the tuesday course and then i can climb a few evenings maybe and then go in the following monday for a few hours.
My roommate liz really wants to go with someone and i’m someone! I’m kind of half hoping that i can get some front desk work at that gym and just work a few shifts in the evenings back to back with my current job. :) That would be fantastic! I love workfare, and it would just be stupid NOT to climb if i worked there!
I have done this many times in the past, but not since high school. I’d like to start again and progress to doing more outdoor climbing.
salsafreak is stress free & happy!
... but I was completely out of shape then. I’m curious to see how I would do now that I’m more fit…
cwinkler school's out for summer
I’ve been a bunch of times. I started going when I was really young. You really just need to set aside time to do it. Really uplifting to say “yeh i climbed that and made it to the top.” Repelling is just as fun. Don’t go to a gym, go outside it’s 10 times better
My boyfriend is moving to a place quite near the rock gym I would go to when i climb, which is rare these days. Hopefully proximity (and a possible climbing partner) will make me/us go more often.
Scariest / most reckless climb I ever did was up the side of a 50 ft. waterfall. Why did I do it? To look down from the top!











