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Curious what everyone's into. Don't see many posts about mountain biking, skiing, or other gear-intensive sports where people get out and compete, or just have fun.
Aside from hiking and camping, I only have a few outdoor activities, and am fairly new at them.
Anyway, here's mine:
-Toproping(rock climbing). Haven't done any trad or sport climbing, and have no great desire to.
Got into toproping with a coworker last year, and it became a regular thing, sometimes twice a week.
Lost my partners due to their schedules changing, but read about self-belayed toproping while looking for ways to climb alone other than bouldering.
First time solo, yesterday, testing things out on an easy wall.
Gear works great, though I've got to work on positioning the ascender, and transitioning to rappel.
I'm excited, and sore all over after not climbing in four months!
(pack is tensioning the rope, so it feeds through the ascender, minimizing fall distance)
The gear list would be pretty long. I have separate Mystery Ranch flat bags for carabiners and belay devices, webbing and cord, a heavy-duty anchor strap, and now one for dedicated solo climbing so all the stuff that's going on my harness is in one place.
New for solo: Bluewater Accelerator 10.5mm Double Dry 60m dynamic rope, Petzl Microcender.
-When it doesn't interfere with hiking or climbing, I do some tame kayaking on the Coosa River, some local lakes and creeks.
My kayak is a sit-on-top, and not for whitewater, and a short class 3 is the roughest I've been through with it.
Native Watercraft Manta Ray 11, Stohlquist aSea PFD, and Manta Ray Hybrid TLC paddle.
Played golf Monday for the first time in 17 years with a friend from work. That's outdoorsy!
May get my dad's old clubs, and keep doing it.
High wind, and tornado sirens going off in the background. We both played horribly, and didn't bother keeping score after the first two holes, since we were both par x2. Lots of fun, though!
What are you doing out there, and what do you do it with?
Aside from hiking and camping, I only have a few outdoor activities, and am fairly new at them.
Anyway, here's mine:
-Toproping(rock climbing). Haven't done any trad or sport climbing, and have no great desire to.
Got into toproping with a coworker last year, and it became a regular thing, sometimes twice a week.
Lost my partners due to their schedules changing, but read about self-belayed toproping while looking for ways to climb alone other than bouldering.
First time solo, yesterday, testing things out on an easy wall.
Gear works great, though I've got to work on positioning the ascender, and transitioning to rappel.
I'm excited, and sore all over after not climbing in four months!
(pack is tensioning the rope, so it feeds through the ascender, minimizing fall distance)
The gear list would be pretty long. I have separate Mystery Ranch flat bags for carabiners and belay devices, webbing and cord, a heavy-duty anchor strap, and now one for dedicated solo climbing so all the stuff that's going on my harness is in one place.
New for solo: Bluewater Accelerator 10.5mm Double Dry 60m dynamic rope, Petzl Microcender.
-When it doesn't interfere with hiking or climbing, I do some tame kayaking on the Coosa River, some local lakes and creeks.
My kayak is a sit-on-top, and not for whitewater, and a short class 3 is the roughest I've been through with it.
Native Watercraft Manta Ray 11, Stohlquist aSea PFD, and Manta Ray Hybrid TLC paddle.
Played golf Monday for the first time in 17 years with a friend from work. That's outdoorsy!
May get my dad's old clubs, and keep doing it.
High wind, and tornado sirens going off in the background. We both played horribly, and didn't bother keeping score after the first two holes, since we were both par x2. Lots of fun, though!
What are you doing out there, and what do you do it with?
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