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- From: andrew@alice.att.com (Andrew Hume)
- Newsgroups: rec.climbing
- Subject: Re: learning to lead
- Summary: another tack
- Message-ID: <24256@alice.att.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 23:27:43 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24256
- References: <1992Nov14.014440.11327@nas.nasa.gov> <1992Nov19.111731.22565@aber.ac.uk>
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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- another reason to lead is to go climbing at all!
- i climbed several times in australia before coming to Bell Labs
- and wanted to do some climbing. I didn't know any climbers so
- I taught a friend (via toproping at the local practice cliffs)
- and then we went to the Gunks and I taught myself how to lead
- (I had never lead in Australia).
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- i was certainly scared shitless (even it was only a 5.3)
- but it was the only way I was going to get climbing done (my partner
- wasn't keen on leading). I've since mastered the tension of leading
- which is enjoyable in itself with one exception. The labs periodically
- give out free tetanus shots. I scheduled myself for one (over 7 years
- since the last one) and at the last moment they changed the day to
- the day before i was climbing at the gunks. no problem, i said,
- just do it in the left shoulder. next day, about 2/3 of teh way up,
- i started feeling really shitty. to make things worse, i got off
- route and had to down-climb a bunch. i finished the climb with about
- 103 fever. I asked later about the shot and was told they included
- a diptheria dose for free with the tetanus shot. I was a tad testy
- about informed consent; leading with a raging fever is not enjoyable.
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- andrew
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