Commoditized climbing
Sep. 29th, 2008 11:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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sheenaqotj to a place called "The Main Event" and got a very different experience of climbing than I'm used to. Instead of belaying your friends, all the climbs are on auto-belay device. Instead of being surrounded by young athletic hipsters there were swarms of kids and parents. They had an easy section of maybe 8 5.6 climbs and a couple 5.7ish. It was pretty busy. The intermediate section started at 5.8 and with a little cheating I got up one of them. The whole section seemed a little less well maintained and less often visited and yet some of the holds seemed a little slick from too many unchalked hands.
It was fun anyway. In under an hour I did 7 or 8 'easy' climbs and got myself a thorough workout and thoroughly tired.
sheenaqotj to a place called "The Main Event" and got a very different experience of climbing than I'm used to. Instead of belaying your friends, all the climbs are on auto-belay device. Instead of being surrounded by young athletic hipsters there were swarms of kids and parents. They had an easy section of maybe 8 5.6 climbs and a couple 5.7ish. It was pretty busy. The intermediate section started at 5.8 and with a little cheating I got up one of them. The whole section seemed a little less well maintained and less often visited and yet some of the holds seemed a little slick from too many unchalked hands.It was fun anyway. In under an hour I did 7 or 8 'easy' climbs and got myself a thorough workout and thoroughly tired.
