#belay certification

For the past three weeks I have been completely without rock climbing, despite my blog continuing to update itself automatically. Going without rock climbing was difficult for me. After dedicating so much time each week to it I suddenly had nothing. By the end of my time without climbing I had begun dreaming about rock climbing and watching videos about it online. As of yesterday I finally got to…

Behold this beautiful piece of paper! This piece of paper means that I can now officially belay people. Which means that I am in charge of keeping them safe and to be completely honest that can be ungodly intimidating. To get this delicate piece of paper I had to go to a 2-3 hour class, take a written test, and successfully belay someone six times while having a worker back me up, just in case. …