Over the course of this last ten days or so we have gone from gray to green. The forest has changed now and the canopy is very nearly in place. I climbed with a visitor who is from CT like me but now lives in Salt Lake City yesterday. We both marveled at how different this forest is than anything in the west, at how full of life it is. We also marveled at what a brilliant experience it is to climb on a cool and quiet weekday morning in the Gunks.
In our online registration form a woman from NY wrote; I want to try climbing to get to know my inner self better. This got me to thinking about what draws people to climbing. Why spend all this time, money and energy to go hang from a cliff face? I think that Diana's response is refreshingly honest, "to get to know my inner self better". That gets right to the center of it, I think.
Over the next several weeks I'll be asking the visitors that I work with why they have come out and I'll let you know what I here.
J.
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