Stone Summit trip report

Well, I was wanting to get out to Whitesides in NC this weekend and follow Ben on the OR.
However, the forecast was crap.

It is my Spring Break after all, so I wanted to climb. So I went to the largest indoor crag called Stone Summit. It is located in Atlanta, GA.

I'm only a little under 3 hrs away from there. Most of the crags I go to outside are the same distance if not more. I figured, what the hell???

This place was awesome!

There was a little girl in there leading all of these super hard routes. She was only like 10 years old. She was awesome to watch.
I took a pic of her coach belaying her. It was really inspiring to see these little kids in there with their coaches. The coaches were big time too I suppose b/c they had jackets on that read, "USA Climbing" on them.

This guy was pretty awesome too:

My friend, Paul.

This place is freaking huge! It is the perfect, crappy weather place...literally, it is an indoor crag!!!

See why I want to lead? I really want to lead in this gym.
It has tons of moderate routes I can lead at my grade ability. I could really learn to lead here.

Bouldering area:

My friends are down there somewhere:

There they are!!! Yay!

Of course I had to take a panoramic pic!

Paul leading:

There is a wall that moves too. They move it to make it incline, and the routes are set for speed climbing. They didn't have it set up though. I remember asking Paul about that wall. I asked, "What is that lady doing there?" He says, "Oh yeah, that's the speed climbing wall." Then we both looked at the route and looked at each other and said at the same time, "Um, well, she's not speed climbing..." LOL!!! (sorry)

An adult's jungle gym:

Underneath that red carpet is the track for the lift that helps carry the buckets of holds up for the route setters. Really cool, heh?

They have gym equipment here as well and yoga classes.

The kids climbing areas are awesome too! There is a dinosaur they climb on, and it has a slide too!

I had a blast climbing here Sunday!

I failed my lead test though. I'll get it next time. I really would like to start leading. It is very frustrating that I'm not. I mean, I have already led some stuff, even outdoors. I want to lead at this gym though. I just think it is a great place to learn.

In order to lead here, you have to fall on a lead test. It was frustrating b/c I was very nervous. Then I didn't want to let go and, just as usual. I mean, who really wants to fall? You fall if you have to sometimes. But who really just wants to be that careless and be falling all the time on lead. I don't! Others learn by falling and I respect that. I however, don't want to be that kind of climber that pushes that hard to where I take falls like that. I personally will never lead anything out of my grade level range. That's just me.

I screamed on the way down. It wasn't pretty. They failed me on my test for multiple reasons.
Oh well, not the end of the world. However, it is a little frustrating and disappointing.

I get so scared on lead...now you want me to fall on purpose? Wow!


I ran 1.7 miles tonight without stopping to walk! Yay! I was hoping for 2 miles. I'll get it next time. All of these squats I am doing are really helping I can tell.
:-)

Low days exist to remind you that you still have choices.
High days, Sue, exist to remind you of how fast you rebound... among other things.
Boing,
The Universe