My good old friend Scott was coming into town back when I lived in Colorado Springs. I called him a few days before he arrived to plan the trip. I asked, "So Scott is there anything that you would like to do while you are here?" Scott said, "I want to do things that people in Colorado do." So there it was. We went snowboarding, and rock climbing. Scott, and Desiree, and I have never gone climbing before, but we did decide to go to an indoor gym. We all had so much fun and loved it. One Scott left, Desiree and I still could not stop talking about our time climbing. We had a plan to start a climbing membership instead of our YMCA memberships.
Time went by and it was about a year after the day Scott had come out. Desiree and I had asked my parents to not get us anything for Christmas that year, but just give us a gift of cash. After many discussions on what to do with our Christmas money we just could not help but to buy our own pair of climbing shoes. We had our shoes for about a couple of weeks, and still had not hit the gym. I was get very anxious and needed to go climbing. Desiree and I planned it, and one Wednesday we went to a gym called Rock and Jammin 2 in Denver, CO. Desiree and I were just a little intimidated. Everyone else was a lot better than us. We did not really know the ethics of the bouldering cave, and tried to stay out of people’s way as much as possible.
The bouldering cave is a small area, and you notice the people that you are climbing with there. Some people would come and go. There was a man that came in and he had a colorful hat on. There were a few things that I noticed about him: 1: He was a great climber. This guy would more like dance up the wall than climb. He found how to use the least amount of energy while he climbed, and it was very graceful. 2: He was very friendly, and filled with joy. You could tell that he loved climbing and climbing with other people. He would give advice, and was not afraid to climb with less talented climbers. This is how we met. Aaron could see that Desiree and I really had no idea what we were doing. He often times would yell something out at us while we were working on a problem to help us through it. It was great, and we liked this guy. He sure was a strange breed.
We got talking a little, and introduced our selves. We found out that his name was Aaron. Aaron was surprised to hear that we had never been climbing outdoors. He immediately exclaimed that we needed to go. He told us that he was going the weekend coming up, and he would like us to go. We then traded numbers.
I was really excited to go climbing the coming weekend, and Desiree was too. I called my parents to share the excitement, and they made me think a little. My mother was a little concern that I have only meet this guy once, and now we were going to go into the woods, with a stranger, to let him teach us to climb. It did make me worry a little bit. My excitement had covered my logic to be careful. I thought it out and was not too nervous, so we decided to go, but I did bring a knife. [This is now a joke between Aaron and me]
Climbing was so much fun. Desiree and I could not really do that much. Are fingers still had a lot of growing. It was hard to watch climbers that were all very good, and then hardly get my but off of the ground.
Aaron and I started to climb a lot together, and even for a while were going three times a week. It was a lot of fun. Aaron helped me to improve a lot, and I am grateful for the friendship that I had. Here are a few videos that we took while climbing:
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