Find a climbing partner can be the crux to any climber day off. Sometimes our friends are working or out climbing with someone else already. As good as friends are no one ever want to be the 3rd wheel. Some times friends can't climb together because they each have their own selfish, no necessarily a bad selfish, goals in mind. So what happens is a partner less climber will either go solo (bouldering, free solo, aid solo, rope solo) or aproach "randoms" or random people at the crag to find an effective counter weight. This can turn out to be more dangerous than free soloing. At least when you are free soloing you know you can't fall. When there is a questionable belayer it is unclear. It feels like a belay, it smells like a belay, but it might not actually save your life.
Climbing partnerships are the basis of many deep friendships. The rope holds friends together through thick and thin. It seems odd that one could pick up a random to share that tether with. The only way one could do this is by have purely selfish goals. It would seem just as selfish, yet safer to solo. While soloing only the one climber's goals are confronted and accomplished, or failed.
Climbing partnerships are the basis of many deep friendships. The rope holds friends together through thick and thin. It seems odd that one could pick up a random to share that tether with. The only way one could do this is by have purely selfish goals. It would seem just as selfish, yet safer to solo. While soloing only the one climber's goals are confronted and accomplished, or failed.
Way kool buddy.
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