Ahoy,
Climbing on real rocks outside has been a bucket list item I've listed as completed for quite a while now. But every time continues to be an adventure. When I put it on my list so long ago, I never would have thought I would have so many opportunities to go outside and climb. When I got my first climbing intro 3 years ago, just as I was leaving CA, in my last ditch effort to check off all my items, I wasn't thinking I would get to climb so many times after that. I wasn't thinking I would actively seek out climbing gyms wherever I went, I wasn't thinking I would get a membership at a climbing gym and meet so many fun people to go on climbing trips. Climbing is very much an individual sport, but the social aspects of it is really one of my favorite reasons to climb.
Last weekend, we went out to San Bernadino for sport climbing. It's a marvel that so far in the middle of nowhere you can still find a big community of people all interested in the same thing you are. Complete strangers, familiar faces, everyone is out there to hang out, to climb, to help you climb. Outdoor or indoor, it's easy to talk to people on the wall. It's easy to create a commonality as soon as you touch the wall. That being said, it's not like this all the time. But I truly treasure the contact that people can make when climbing. It's a lonely planet, but this is a way to make it a little less so.
gorgingly frizzled,
jt
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