Finding my Other Self

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mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Nov 14, 2013 - 09:19pm PT

Red, bump.
Yellow, brown, and dead leaf, bump.
Sure want to get there myself now, bump.
Finding one's other self, bump.

drljefe

climber

El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson

Nov 14, 2013 - 09:29pm PT

Yet sometimes...on magic days...I can find my other self, that person who can use magic, can walk up walls, and stick to smooth polish. Sometimes, I can be with that person who can overcome what lies ahead to reach the top.

Really, really nice.
Good job on the climb and the writing.

Seamstress

Trad climber

Yacolt, WA

Nov 14, 2013 - 11:08pm PT

Nice - and now we have photographic evidence, she is a lady, she was wearing scarlett, and she was on lead. Leadin - it makes climbing all new again.

ladyscarlett

Trad climber

SF Bay Area, California

Topic Author's Reply - Nov 15, 2013 - 03:47pm PT

the cracks are a trick...

I hear it's the easy version of "small hold face climbing."

made me stand up fer sure!

Cheers

LS

rgold

Trad climber

Poughkeepsie, NY

Nov 15, 2013 - 05:03pm PT

We just thought you were taking your time! No idea you were up there negotiating with multiple personalities and having life-affirming insights.

I'd venture that almost every climber has moments of extreme doubt and ultimate affirmation much like your experience. I'd go so far as to say that it's what the game is really all about. Not that we'd want such experiences every time we leave the ground, but these occasional moments of extremity, arriving unbidden, are the bedrock on which a climbing life is built, the source of such confidence as we possess, such wisdom as we have acquired, and the intensity of experience we share.

At the end of the day, you stepped up and, as Dingus says, walked the dog. The modern fist bump strikes me as a paltry acknowledgement of all that went on, and the internet makes it virtual at that, but it's all that's available for a transcontinental acknowledgement of a job well done.