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So NOT a 12
I didn’t really think I’d climb a 12 on Saturday. I wasn’t even planning to get on a 12. My goals were to do some 11s and to take some falls. I failed at both. I did try an 11 but I didn’t get to the top and the next hardest [...]
April 23, 2006
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What we do for love
We drive 3 1/2 hours with it raining the last two hours, hike through the rain to find rock that’s mostly dry, belay with the rain pounding our eyes and streaming down our faces, say “the holds are all dry” optimistically. We climb three routes before the wind forces the rain into the rock [...]
August 20, 2005
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Two-Sided Face of Fear
Rumney
“We’ll do hard stuff,” I promise. “I’ll lead it myself.”
I’m trying to talk Todd into a trip to Rumney with the Connecticut gym folks. He didn’t like Rumney the last time we went for several reasons, one of which was that the group gravitated towards walls with easy routes. To make matters worse, [...]
September 30, 2001
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Twelve’s a Crowd
It starts with me and Lisa and Brenda, a sort of girl’s only climbing trip. I’ve never been to Rumney before. But then neither have Todd and Steven so I invite them along. We run into Julie at the Gunks one day and it turns out she needs a partner for that weekend. She lives [...]
June 25, 2000
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