After our first jaunt sport climbing on our own, several weeks passed by with either busy weekends or terrible weather. When I finally spotted a good forecast, I started mentally planning that I would not be sleeping in on Saturday, but getting up to go climbing instead.

Kay was surprised by my sudden “Let’s go climbing before it’s too late!!” plan on a Friday evening, but he was delighted that I suggested it because the weather was spectacular and a day climb fit in well with our other plans that weekend.We headed back to the same wall where we took our first course. I remember being intimidated to start our first top-roping climb and some parts where I climbed too far past the next anchor point and had to climb downwards. Nooot fun. This time we seemed to zip up the wall in record speed with our new confidence in the materials and our technique. It’s always really hard to show the grade, because the incline feels so steep when you are on it, but shows up flat in photos. This part below was pretty steep and really scared me the first time we did it. This time, it was pretty painful because both Kay and I were getting killer blisters in our shoes and dealing with very painful feet while climbing.

The view at the top was pretty nice. 🙂It’s fun to look down on views like this while perched against a rock wall.

We also tried to take some selfies to show the vertical drop. Not that successful. Kay started packing up the rope and then we began the long descent down.Throwing the rope out.It actually took way longer to abseil down than climb up because on the way up we climbed using the full length of the rope attached to one another, and with abseiling, we could only use the half length of the rope, one at a time.Happy about a successful climb. 🙂