Posts Tagged ‘Sport’
I began this week on Monday climbing at Harrison South. I had not had a rest day from the previous day at Metcalfe Rock, so I drugged myself up suitably with Tylenol.
On the way, we met Mark and his friend Gord. Apparently Mark is a fairly experienced climber who climbs quite often with Bob and [...]
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Tags: Cape Croker, Harrison South, Owen Sound, Sport, Trad, West Rocks
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
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