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jonnyrig
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 24, 2019 - 08:48pm PT
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Went to the gym with a friend. He wanted his lead climbing card, I wanted the belay card. He fell, I caught him. Then I barely managed to pass muster and got my lead card. Yeehaw. Celebrated by taking the kidlets for a few turns on top rope. Then a beer.
Climbing- related. Bazinga.
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skywalker1
Trad climber
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Mar 24, 2019 - 09:14pm PT
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We took our daughter climbing and camping since 6 weeks old. As she got older she liked simply swinging around on the rope climbing outside. Then my wife started to take her to the gym with her. One day at Red Rocks, NV she roped up with me belaying and just suddenly was determined to reach the top. It "clicked".
With a little swinging she managed to piece it together and made it to the anchor and I lowered her. She wanted to do it again. She worked out a different way, with some swinging, and made it to the top again. I don't know who had the biggest smile, her or her parents? She is pretty stoked now.
Good for you getting the kids out even in the gym.
Cheers!
S....
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Mar 24, 2019 - 09:21pm PT
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"but my finger ring is made of silicone so it won't hurt me" said the gym climber, to me, the other week. sigh.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Mar 25, 2019 - 05:50am PT
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There Is No Gym Here In My Neck Of The Woods.
I used to hold my breath, waiting for the onslaught of plastic-pulling gubbers & gubbetts that some new gym would send forth into my woods on to my rocks.
My thinking came from the circumstances; industrial space is cheap and stand-alone gyms open & then close at the astonishing rate of 4 open and 3 close every 2 years out of 14yrs or so. That means the infrastructure is there all that needs to happen is for the interest to be lit.
It was an "If you build it" situation. I was sure, given the large community college and massive condo world that exists here it was just a matter of time before the climbing store & some partner opened a gym.
The fear of a climbing gym opening died, was extinguished when the "EMS"* store moved from the mall to a stand-alone purpose built building and then shared the space with a mattress store.
Eastern Mountain Sports*, in its beginnings, was a climbing store. One of the 1st on the east coast with stores near cliffs in New Hampshire & Boston. The franchise grew to 15 to 20 stores at its height*.
The industry changes & competition from REI led to its almost total failure, the store here closed 2 years after moving, even though it was built 2 miles from a perfect climbing school cliff.
Now, while there is a Sierra Trading Post store it is not in the mall or near the school there is almost no chance of a climbing gym opening anywhere near anytime soon.
A little sad but in the long run there is a secret untapped wealth of climbing that may someday see climbers but my stewardship, my watch, is over. I proud of the score Radical gear lead 300+ no bolts placed or chopped Of the 40 pins placed all but 2 have been removed.
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EMS was founded in 1967 in Wellesley, Massachusetts by two climbers – Alan McDonough, who was running the family hotel chain, and Roger Furst, a lawyer whose office was in the McDonough complex. They targeted the outdoor equipment market in Boston. The first store on Linden St. in Wellesley carried the Gerry outdoor equipment line as well as downhill skis.
In 1968, the two enterprises merged and built the 1041 Commonwealth Avenue store – at 10,000 sq. ft.
McDonough and Furst sold the company in 1979 to The Franklin Mint, which was acquired by Warner Communications in 1981.
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