Thread: Rock Climbing

I never got to do any rock climbing but I climbed many a column in my younger days. I am in the three pix on the left hand side and I took the ones I am not in back when I used to work for a living.

Boy Jimmy it makes my balls tingle just looking at the pics

Don

Jeeze Jimmy! I suppose you'd get used to it after a little while, but I'd be a nervous mess those first few weeks!

Dude, lip areas are so tough. My forearms aren't to the point where I can do the lip and keep going. Once I get over it, my body goes "ok, we're done, screw you man".

Originally Posted by Quick Orange

Once I get over it, my body goes "ok, we're done, screw you man".

Yea that sounds like my body.

Jimmy, I love heights but that is a whole different ball game. Walking up an I beam would be fun, but with no fall protection i would have to think twice, or maybe thrice

Many story jobs run deck every two floors so you can only fall that far accept on the perimeter. After awhile walking iron isn't an issue. I used to get scared sometimes when setting large pieces of iron that were hard to fit. Stuff where if anyone screws up your history.

When I was kid there was a Mohawk family that lived in my town. The husband worked high steel in Manhattan. I once asked him how he did it, and what there was about Indians that let them work high steel like that.

He laughed and said, "Man, we're just as scared up there as you'd be."

So I asked them why they did it. He laughed again and said, "Where else is an Indian gonna get a job that pays that well?"

j

i havent been climbing in quite a few years, but got a new harness, rope and and am working on a rack cant wait to get back to it, even got the wife into it. anybody know a good place near ft campbell to climb cause im heading up there in a couple of months

-dan-