With the cold and rainy day upon us, we opted for a trip to Vertical Endeavors. Following warm up. I opted to practice the lead climbing cert test route. A "fun" 5.9 that I kept bailing 1 or 2 holds from the last. I decided, oh hell i'll just go for the cert. The test is you have to climb (flash) a 5.9 on lead and take a fall around the 4th draw. So I tied in, and with Dave on belay I started climbing, ::clip:: ::clip:: ::clip:: ::clip:: (well shit this is it huh?) FALL! That was a different. I fell from my knees at the 4th draw down to the first. My feet were about a foot of Dave's head. I took a short break (hanging in the air) and climbed back up. Clipped in to the last draw and my hand slipped off one of the last few holds and FALL! This was not planned I didn't fall as far as before, after I got down apparently there were a few people watching and they kinda freaked out. Well I did learn a number of things and I am over my initial fear of taking a lead fall. After the fall and a break I opted to climb the route again this time on Top Rope and did it. Next time I'm in the area I will retake the test. Now to spend the next two days relaxing!
Short info about lead climbing
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Did you not eat on Saturday? :p
heh....forgot to post that.
and now I can't remember what I ate... I know I had a Chicken burrito bowl from Chipotle and Bill's pizza for dinner.
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