Climbing Buddies

Decided to start taking the girls with me to the climbing gym on Monday nights. The plan is/was to take one each Monday, so they’d trade every other Monday. The first Monday was Lauren. She was a climbing machine. Dad, I want to do this route, that route, and that route over there for an hour and a half. I hardly got to climb until she said, “you should go boulder while I’m on the next route.” Her technique is not as honed as Abigail’s was, but her enthusiasm and determination to get to the top more than makes up for it.

When it rained Wednesday night, instead of riding I went climbing again, but this time took both girls. Yeah, not exactly what I’d planned, but whatever. Again Lauren was a machine. Abigail’s obviously hit that point in life where self preservation takes a bigger role. She wasn’t quite as enthusiastic as Lauren to climb fast or climb high, but she did climb well. She was actually more interested in the slack line, to which I decided to get ours up and usable for them whenever.

– b