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We got an hour or two of blue sky and sun. So I got my shit together and headed outside. Of course, by the time I actually got outside, the clouds were moving in. But it was nice and warm.
But I made a trip over to the quarry with the van, collected some garbage, and did some bouldering. I'm figure if I pick up some garbage each time I'm there it might get better or just not get worse so quick. I was in a meditational mood so the bouldering felt good. I ended up spending a lot of time on the rock so my legs must be getting used to it again.
Some kids showed up while I was there. They were in their late teens and had a kid of maybe 6 with them. They weren't climbers, they were bored kids looking for excitement. One started climbing one of the easy lines (5.3 maybe) in sneakers. I really hate it when they do that, because someday one is going to fall. He got to the trickiest part about 3/4 of the way up. He was there for quite a while. Meanwhile his friends where throwing a lighter back and forth, one on the top, one on the bottom. Sure enough the lighter got stuck on the ledge about 3/4 of the way up the second easy line. The kid who was climbing managed to find his way up the last of the first line and his friends said, "Go get the lighter." Well, he ended up getting it after much back and forth and a few lame attempts with a tree limb.
Neither of the lines is hard. I've freeclimbed both and I'm a wimp about heights, but risking a broken leg or skull for a 99 cent lighter and ego is just plane dumb.
Oh, the best part, hearing "Timmy! Get AWAY from the edge!" shouted to the six year old who was at the top of the pitch. Now just how did your nephew get all the rock dirt and glass shards embedded in his skull?
Why is it a lot of the very intelligent people I know have chosen not to reproduce and almost every stupid person I meet is doing it in spades? Does this spell the end for humankind or has it been like this all along? Are we just on the perpetual slide to brainlessness, like intellectual entropy?
But I made a trip over to the quarry with the van, collected some garbage, and did some bouldering. I'm figure if I pick up some garbage each time I'm there it might get better or just not get worse so quick. I was in a meditational mood so the bouldering felt good. I ended up spending a lot of time on the rock so my legs must be getting used to it again.
Some kids showed up while I was there. They were in their late teens and had a kid of maybe 6 with them. They weren't climbers, they were bored kids looking for excitement. One started climbing one of the easy lines (5.3 maybe) in sneakers. I really hate it when they do that, because someday one is going to fall. He got to the trickiest part about 3/4 of the way up. He was there for quite a while. Meanwhile his friends where throwing a lighter back and forth, one on the top, one on the bottom. Sure enough the lighter got stuck on the ledge about 3/4 of the way up the second easy line. The kid who was climbing managed to find his way up the last of the first line and his friends said, "Go get the lighter." Well, he ended up getting it after much back and forth and a few lame attempts with a tree limb.
Neither of the lines is hard. I've freeclimbed both and I'm a wimp about heights, but risking a broken leg or skull for a 99 cent lighter and ego is just plane dumb.
Oh, the best part, hearing "Timmy! Get AWAY from the edge!" shouted to the six year old who was at the top of the pitch. Now just how did your nephew get all the rock dirt and glass shards embedded in his skull?
Why is it a lot of the very intelligent people I know have chosen not to reproduce and almost every stupid person I meet is doing it in spades? Does this spell the end for humankind or has it been like this all along? Are we just on the perpetual slide to brainlessness, like intellectual entropy?
