I met a girl this last school year who in the course of our conversation told me how much she loved rock climbing and bouldering, said she did it all the time. But then a few months later we went down to Arches National Park with some friends and I was excited to see how well she could do. I'd always considered myself fairly good at climbing, and I hoped she could keep up with me. (Hey, she was pretty, smart, and claimed to be a good climber. I hoped she could live up to my expectations.) So yeah, we are on this hike and we decide to hurry and climb up to this one ledge. So she starts up, and suddenly drops and starts crawling, eventually reaching a point where one of us had to help pull her up. Meanwhile I have walked right past her, and never stopped walking until I reached the target. Talk about a disappointment.

But yeah, bouldering is a lot of fun. Never done much climbing with ropes, but I'd like to do it sometime. Living in Utah, there's a fair amount of stuff to do here, especially to the south. Maple Canyon (supposedly some premier rock climbing place) is quite close to my house, and there is a lot of Red Rock a few hours south, I find myself down there with the family quite often.