Climbing
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- peterorpete
Does any one here go climbing? With ropes and stuff? I've booked a climbing course, i've decided i need a new recreational pursuit.
- Raniator0
Ropes and stuff? Good luck!
- stewart0
yes, in La Fouly, Switzerland
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&…
- lowimpakt0
i climbed out of bed this morning
- chossy0
Yes I do it's great, lovely feeling of freedom and escape. Have a great time and be careful :).
- peterorpete0
I've booked a indoor course at this huge indoor climbing center in London. Second largest in size to one in Edinburgh, Is that where you do some of your climbing?
Its gigantic chossy!- nice placebenfal99
- yes but where is it?
weave - sorry i didn't make sense,
its in Edinburgh
http://www.edinburgh…peterorpete - Out at Ratho edinburgh and yes it is actually huge inside MASSIVE!!!!!chossy
- damn, is all of that climbable?mg33
- weave0
Where is that?
I went for my first climb in about 8 years last night, just indoor but was good fun. Arms are sore today.
- where is what? the pic above is
http://www.edinburgh…peterorpete - but ive booked in to westway climbing center in NW Londonpeterorpete
- Yes the place in the pic above. Thanks. I'm in london so will have a look at that one.weave
- where is what? the pic above is
- chossy0
I have climbed in the picture you posted peter, but I tend to do outdoor climbing only, I like that much more than indoor climbing :). Have a wicked time, my climbing training consisted of my dad putting a harness on me and saying 'Right bonny lad dodge up that, off you pop'.
- Corvo20
^^ I could live in there.
- Gordy220
Where are you Pete? I used to go a lot in London - the Castle in north london is the best, another good place in Nottinghill.
- peterorpete0
I live near hammersmith so i've booked the one near notting hill
looks good- Westway, wicked place! Some hardcore climbers there!jysta
- Gordy220
Yeah - it is. Good luck - such good fun but prepare for your forearms to cramp like f*ck.
- ********0
I get the climbing up part but not the climbing down part. how hard is down climbing?
- you don't down-climb in sport climbing. Your partner lowers you on a rope. Like the KING OF THE MOUNTAIN!monNom
- Gordy220
Can't be arsed with that - just rappel / dangle / fall
- Nairn0
Yes.
Tiring and middle class.
- PUSH YOURSELF BEFORE YOU DIE, BECAUSE YOU'VE NEVER TRULY FELT ANYTHING. Or something.Nairn
- more enjoyable than a gympeterorpete
- Undoubtedly!Nairn
- Still, climbing does feature women with sweat on their brow and moderate panic on their faces. Excellent.Nairn
- Sadly, outmatched by my own huffing red mass of damp apoplexic terror.Nairn
- Nairn0
I think someone should turn coal mining into extreme sport.
- peterorpete0
did the climbing course on weekend, very enjoyable, but i ache so much today, i've used muscles i never knew even existed
- rayborn30000
5.12 baby!
- ?peterorpete
- aye********
- 5.12 a,b,c or d ???jysta
- mostly a .. been up to c .. and thats a red pointrayborn3000
- jysta0
It's like running but for your forearms, you need to do it often to get any good at it. But once you get past the curve its super addictive :-))) Just make sure you get the right boots and and use talc if you don't wear socks.
- where do you climb?peterorpete
- Socks and boots are for ice-climbing. Anything else is just in slippers....********
- I used to climb Guildford (vertex and craggy), Southampton St Mary's and Westway) Calshot, Breckan Beacons,jysta
- but I had to quit due to toe problems and hernia :-(jysta
- atomholc0
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