Learning How To Lead Climb

 So Lucy and I woke up on the later side today and got up and out around 10:00 today. We drove down the road to the hardware store but we didn't end up getting anything. We just wanted to see if they had any tools we could purchase to make our senior project a little more exciting. once we got back from the store we watched videos Rosanna assigned us to watch in order to get an idea of what lead climbing would be like. We watched 4 different videos that all ended up blurring together and then we headed to the wall where we met Rosanna. She told us to put harnesses on and then she gave us an idea of what lead climbing would look like and then it was our turn to start climbing. I started first and began to understsnd how to clip in correctly it took a little bit of time to understsnd but I have it down now. Then it was lucys turn to go try to learn how to climb and clip in again. After this I waa told to go back up because we needed to focuse on how to belay when lead climbing. Lucy focused on rosanna as. climbed again and then I was told to fall... this was terrifying for some reason. I wasn't on the auto belay system and I almost pooped my pants. After 2 minuets of clinging to the wall like it was my life line I let go... it was not bad at all. then lucy went all the way to the top and was told to fall too... it was a very sucessful day of learning and climbing and i am so excited for more climbing in our future. 


Total Hours Today:4 

Total hours: 15 hours 








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