Archive for July, 2008
A Day of Firsts
I spent the last little while, from last Saturday to Wednesday, at a cottage near Parry Sound with my family, and boy can I feel it, even missing only two days of climbing. My legs are still groaning from todays abuse. I can’t help but feeling pleased by it. For a while, [...]
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Tags: Climbing, Metcalfe Rock, Sport, Trad
Weekend Warrior
Chris and I managed to go climbing at a part of West Rocks further west on Wednesday this past week. The nature of the escarpment there is sufficiently different and the access is so radically different, that it really warrants another name entirely; however, presently there is really only one bolted line, and our [...]
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Tags: Climbing, Owen Sound, Sport, Trad, West Bluffs, West Rocks
When I was a kid, my family and I would go for a walk around the block, so to speak – it was a rural block – on Sunday mornings and collect all the beer bottles along the side of the road. It was a nice way to make a few bucks as a kid, but [...]
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Tags: Reflections
Progress
Climbing with new people really hits home just how much of a novice I am when it comes to climbing. When climbing with friends who I have climbed with regularly in the past, it doesn’t matter as they are already well aware of my deficiencies and so they don’t have expectations beyond which I [...]
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Tags: Climbing, Harrison North, Harrison South, Motivation, Owen Sound, Sport, Trad, West Rocks
