#rock-climbing

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[bo-sin-limite]

The wealth of karst formations and cave systems here are geologist Disneyland. But instead I find a wealth of climbing freaks ascending the walls. A French couple feels sorry for me and takes me out to climb a few of the kiddi routes - meanwhile I recognize a girl I saw swimming - maybe 14 years old - climb the better part of an 80 meter multi-pitch, with some serious overhang!  

Sierra y Cañones de Guara: Rodillar (Huesca - Spain)

[elladastinkardiamou]

Rock Climbing in Meteora: Touching the Divine

Since my arrival here, all I’ve been hearing are strange names like “Pillar of Rain”, “Line of the Falling Drops”, “Corner of Madness”, “Lightning Rod”, “Stairway to Heaven”, and “Bride of Satan”. It turns out they’re all names of climbing routes, and the rock climbers around me can’t decide which one to tackle first.

In Meteora, there are 170 peaks and 870 routes to choose from. It’s a place where your instinct to climb really kicks in, and you don’t often find yourself in spaces like that.

After two months of lockdown, Camping Vrachos, the climbers’ favourite lodgings in Kastraki, recently began operating again, and loyal visitors are thrilled. Around the campground, clothes are drying on climbing ropes held up by carbines. In the central kiosk, there are ropes, helmets and climbing shoes.

Maps and guides lie open on the benches and impatient rope partners are hunched over them. A curious dialect is spoken in the shade of the trees, peppered with phrases like “multi-pitch”, “top rope”, “cams”, “nuts.” These are all tools and techniques unfamiliar outside of climbing circles, but the campers here all understand each other perfectly.

[hercoconuts]

25 Oct 2021

There was a competition at my climbing gym over the weekend, so when I showed up around 7:30am with a cup of coffee in hand to get a climb in before my studies, I was a bit thrown off by how different the walls looked. All the usual routes were gone, and so I decided to just start on my classes instead of doing a warm-up climb.

I finished my notes and took a quiz for my Ecology class around 9:15am. The assignment is due Wednesday. As a reward, I climbed some of the competition routes for a release. The original plan was to go for a run after, and so I went down to the basement of the gym and got on the treadmill since I refuse to run in the rain. I only went for 19 minutes (aim was a 30 minutes but I wasn’t feeling it). The rain had stopped, so I assumed a short run outside would be fun. That is until I spilled essential oil all over myself and had to drive home to shower.

I wanted to get ahead in my Crime & Media class and stopped at the gym’s attached café for some free wifi and a cup of coffee. Finished 1/3 of the readings before feeling hungry and ultimately frustrated. It was around 1:30pm, so I went back to the gym to climb before going home and starting a new book while I ate my first meal of the day (figs, apples, jackfruit…)

Ended up opening my laptop and making another cup of coffee in an attempt to do more notes, but got stuck playing with my study playlists on Spotify. At 5pm I dumped the coffee, went to the store and bought 6 cans of unsalted peas and sped home to read more of the book.

I am most looking forward to my Comparative Politics class discussion on Democratic Regimes, alongside the topic for my philosophical class.

Xx M

[monsieursambers]

[nextwavefutures]

Sixes and sevens #020

Sixes and sevens #020: this week, rock climbing and productivity, XR’s flawed model of social change, and the imaginary sports stadiums of the vaportecture word, and others.

My weekly collection of the provocative, intriguing, or curious, in a world where the house is falling down. The contextual, the cultural, and other things that catch my eye.

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Rock climbing tells us a lot about productivity gains. We over-estimate the effect of technology, and under-estimate the effect of spreading knowledge. Related: Richard Jones responds that maybe technology…

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[namalam]

Complete #respect for my son, who I swear makes rock-climbing look easy. The amount of finger and forearm strength needed is unreal. Great fun, but very humbling. #whenincolorado (at EVO Rock + Fitness Louisville) https://www.instagram.com/p/Buhkom0A2k6FVg8Z7eE5xywn0e516JU-sHlRAw0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ecgkeqb62ouf

[elise-g]

Le soleil, la mer, la grimpe sur le granit du Finistère nord, la musique, le sable, l’air frais du soir.

au festival d’escalade Blokuhaka 2017, Kerlouan, Bretagne