Tuesday, February 26, 2008

This is a climb done recently by a VE staff member

Russell, at the VE front desk, told me this is one of the climbs they did while out in Red Rocks Nevada. He describes the technique necessary to climb it as a corkscrew technique which I kinda understand. Not.

Lisa, Aaron and I met his climbing partner Art the other day at the gym. Art has perfected the technique of insulting his belayer - me - while he is in the middle of a climb. I don't recommend that technique, as I like to keep my belayer happy until I'm at least on the ground. Especially if your belayer has access to ice axes. Which I will have tomorrow. So just keep a civil tongue in your mouth while I'm belaying you on Wednesday and everything will go more smoothly. Thank you for your understanding.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Have I mentioned how nice you look from an eagle's eye view!? Well you do. I wouldn't dream of saying anything to the contrary esp if you held my life in your hands.

Lisa said...

I agree!Be kind to Belayers!
That corkscrew route looks super fun!