Kids and Climbing: A Step Up In Life (Great Outdoors)
**Natural Born Climbers**
Kids are natural climbers. Even before they can walk, they haul themselves up
on crib rails, coffee tables and bureaus. Once mobile, as parents may recall,
a child can be entertained for hours with a flight of stairs, a low-hanging
branch, kitchen cabinet, or, pile of rocks. In the old days, rock climbing was
the bastion of hardscrabble daredevils who used pitons, ropes and force of
will to scale forbidding cliffs. But climbing has changed–or rather grown-up.
In the 1990s, in order to train, it became increasingly common for climbers to
build private indoor walls, utilizing plywood and plastic (or wooden) hand and
foot holds. Most indoor climbing walls were built in basements or garages,
but eventually, some “off-the-wall” entrepreneurship resulted in the first
public-access climbing gym. Nowadays, rock climbing is nearly as main stream
as soccer, football and baseball (and arguably as safe–especially indoor
climbing). There are climbing walls in most playgrounds, schools, mountain
resorts, and, yes, even cruise ships. There are more than 500 indoor climbing
gyms in the U.S.–including public facilities, private clubs, and those
connected to outdoor programs. Both West Point and Harvard have training walls
for their climbers, …
The Wall of DEATH during Abandon All Ships…Bamboozle 2011!!!
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