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I agree WT I like bouldering but so far most of my injuries(that linger) are from bouldering...Of course I suck at bouldering so it was easier to give up.

Liar! Last night I saw you upstairs cranking on some sick sick hard V0-

do you have that song by the gourds?could you send it to me.I can't download songs from known sources.The university would shut down my net access?

When I started at the gym bouldering the easy problems was a great option to learn the ropes. Didn't take long to get tired of the 10' walls though and started spending more time on routes. As I got better I started mixing up the day with routes and problems. I still didn't care for bouldering, but it's all you got when nobody is at the gym wanting to do routes. Well it's been 5 months now and I've been climbing routes outside pretty much every weekend, but finally had my first outside bouldering experience a few weeks ago. I didn't have much interest at first and just help spot my buddies as they worked on some problems. It took a bit of trial and error and falling before each was able to send a roughly 12' problem, but it was pretty cool to see them finally nail it. They told me to give a it a shot and with a bit of hesitation I started. It didn't take long before I was fully engrossed in working this problem out and I was going to beat it even if it took the last layer of skin off my fingers. I finally send it and was absolutely thrilled and immediately started looking for more problems along the wall. Bouldering outside is 100 times more interesting then anything at the gym. After that weekend, we made plans for the next weekend to be a bouldering only weekend so we checked out opie's kitchen in Southern Illinois and had a lot of fun. Although the place is geared more toward v3 and up problems, we still managed to find some easier beginner routes of our own. All said and done I am definately a fan of bouldering outside vs the gym, but the gym is all I have during the week so I'll just make do.

You should try out Traditional climbing

Ha.... Interesting you should say that!

I just bought my first passive gear this past weekend. I played around with it at ground level working on placements and multidirectional anchors. Looking forward to my first trad lead real soon.

Just came back from two days of mostly solo bouldering. Pretty cool, but I think I like bouldering with really high engery people better. There is nothing like trying a hard top out, up there a ways, with no spotter!

Wes

He's MAD I tell you!! MAD!!

I felt kinda "mad", when trying to contrive a top out to this problem. Maybe 12 feet up, nary a positive hold in sight, funky laying off slopey side pulls, and no spotters. At least you know for sure it will be a ground fall. None of that wondering if you are going to deck stuff you get with roped climbing.

Wes