Rock Climbing . . . As a real American Girl, without any lifeline !

● As you know, many French moved to Seattle and chose to live here. So I met plenty of them, usually their children go to the Northwest School, so they are numerous to propose us some activities. One week-end, I went to the Seattle Bouldering Project with a friend of mine. She is fourteen, but she is just one grade beneath mine, and she is very cool.

When you are done, you just cannot walk anymore, you are dirty and skinned, your muscles sore, and you even discover new muscles you didn't know they exusted in your body, that's both terrible and so cool. It's ascinating because you are on your own, you cannot have a rest with the lifeline, so you have to always focus on what you are doing, and that is really exhausting. But that makes you push yourself. A-W-E-S-O-M-E.

Her little borther, a master.

Then, you may prefer to go back the same âthway, but you are supposed to jump and let you drop on the safety cushion.

The most experienced of those who practice this . . . hobby, many equipment/tools shall be made available to practice and to make your fingers, your arms, or any specific part of your body stronger. Oh, and, yeah, of course, sometimes you can only clim with two fingers. If you can't, well, you fall.

 

Pretending it is so easyyyyy to climb this pathway. Since you have to stretch in a way which makes oyu look like an tiny genius, she tried to look like if she was one too. Looks like a Djinn, doesn't she ? O:

Very clever yep x'D And now what ?

Something else is, when you reach to the top, you can arrive on another platform, a kind of roof, or you can just face a big hole, a chasm. Very nice. Absolutely not scary AT ALL. So well, usually people do not clean the beams behind the climbing wall, so you can write your name with the dust.

These people were making fun of me, because it was hard to clim to the top, with a camera, without making it bang against the wall, probably because we were speaking Franglish too, but mostly because the little brother was just UNDER ME. I am not kidding, usually you are not allowed to do so because if the person who is climbing wants to fall because she cannot hold on anymore, you have to be far away from where she is. But he was just climbing to help me, or in case I would prefer to give him the camera or whatever. Anyway, it was so funny, but I was so afraid of hurting him than I told him he better go down, what he did.

Hello there ! There he is.

Well, they were probably laughing at us because I was taking picture of myself and I was probably talking in a panicked way, as I feared to fall or to let it go/give up and to hurt the brother.

So, the ghost was obviously for Halloween. They change the pathways every month, or almost,
and the less diffcult are the V0, the hardest ones are the v10