The Journey Of Finding Partner(s)
If you ask any rock climbers what the most difficult part of this sport is, you might get different answers. For me, the most difficult part is not mastering the techniques nor dealing with the fear but to find a steady partner.
It sucks that rock climbing is something you can’t do by yourself. So in order to find someone to climb with, I pretty much did all the marketing work I could do to advertise myself. I didn’t even need to try that hard to find a guy.
Initially, I didn’t have any problems finding people to respond to my Ad. But once I started to climb with them and tried to make plans to climb every week, everybody became a no show like a lousy boyfriend. Most of people just won’t climb every other day. Period. I kept on placing comments and ads on websites to try my luck. Finally, a guy named Rick agreed to climb. And amazingly, he stuck around. Not only he stuck around, we expanded the team together by dragging a few more guys from work and absorbing a few more single lonely climbers from the gym into the group. Without making plans, everybody started to show up routinely on every Tuesdays and Thursdays. At one point, I had 8 climbing partners. I was the happiest climber on the planet at that time cuz I never need to worry about belayer shortage.
Happy time didn’t last long. My once rock solid climbing team started to collapse just a few weeks ago. Some left town, some had family issues and some are stuck at work. Even my most reliable original partner Rick is bailing the walls for the dancing floors. He tried to convert me to a salsa dancer too. But I still have the hots for the cold rocks.
Today is Tuesday, I went to the climbing gym as usual only finding myself standing in the middle of the gym with no belayer. Boy, this world changes fast… I don’t usually hit on guys. But I find myself in a situation that I just had to if I wanted a belayer. “Hey!..” “Hi… Do you have a partner? Oh, you do…sorry…” I started to feel embarrassed. Finally, a nice guy named Stan whom I climbed with long time ago recognized me and offered a hand.
Ok, I lucked out today but what about this coming Thursday? The guy I found on the Internet hasn’t responded yet. It’s funny that in the dating scenes, guys are usually the ones who have to knock on every girl’s E-door and sometimes have to face rejections.. In the climbing world, I find myself, a not-so-bad-but-not-so-good climber who demands multipe climbs a week is having tremendous amount of trouble finding a “rock date”.
My friends mountaincurmudgeon and Chalk Abuser have been steady climbing partners for years. They are lucky to be each other’s “Prince Charming” on the rock. I wish one day I can find my own “Harness Abuser” to climb peak after peak with me. For now, I am searching more sites and typing up more Ads…
There is not much choice other than keep trying and keep hoping when it comes to finding a partner. I guess the principle applies to any kind of partner such as mating, life long sharing and even rock climbing.
ME Strauss said,
September 7, 2005 @ 9:26 am
I suppose it will happen as most things do . . . you will find your partner when you stop looking.
I hope your partner finds you soon. He or she doesn’t know what a wonderful friend could be right about them.
smiles,
Liz
Nosaj said,
September 7, 2005 @ 9:52 am
Yuna, How about opening a Rock Date Calander on your site? As your blog becomes more and more popular, I’m sure your rock dating scope of influence will increase. Initially, you can find Rock Dates for yourself, later - perhaps for some of your reading population.
:-)
Nosaj
Yuna said,
September 7, 2005 @ 12:21 pm
hmm.. if I stop looking,I’d be trapped with the auto belaying device which I absolutely hate… buy yeah… mountaincurmudgeon and chalk-abuser pretty much bumped into each other…
Well..maybe I will finally start bouldering while waiting for my “charming on the rock” to show up…
So Nosaj, you are a computer God so stop yepping and write that calendar for me now!
mountaincurmudgeon said,
September 7, 2005 @ 4:35 pm
It may just be a phase. Even chalkabuser and I are having a tough time getting together these days, due to temporarily busier schedules…Plus, there seems to be this “doledrums” period about August or so, where we just don’t get out much.
One thing to think about is dropping a couple hundred bucks on a crash pad. At least you can boulder outside, and build a LOT of strength and technique while climbing partners are a bit lean.
Everything is temporary, Yuna.
Namaste.
MC
Boy, that wasn’t very curmudgeon-ey, was it? Okay, uh…chalk-abuser is not charming…to me, anyway.
Yuna said,
September 7, 2005 @ 5:30 pm
Good point..considering I still can’t do a single pull up… it’s time for Yuna to be bigger and stronger…
Glad you disagree with me on the “charming” part…
rick said,
September 9, 2005 @ 8:51 am
Hmmm, sounds like you have given up on me? I haven’t left the group and since the group has quite a few people when I do try to climb with you it ends up we don’t. I also try to make sure that there are people coming so that we do have people to help us. Also, it is a bit hard to keep up with your schedule. Though I will try to do better.
As far as converting that wasn’t what I was trying to do. I think expand or offer another opportunity to spend time together.
Sachin has been a stead fast friend and he is leaving in 8 days. I know I have been spending more time with him but it is unlikely that we will see him again. He has to sell EVERYTHING and this leaves him with no one to help him out, so I stepped up.
I have also made time for you to help you with your board, get your bindings and get us set up to hopefully transfer a few people of the group to snowboarding. I am also really glad that you can stay in the state! And it looks like we will get a lot of riding this winter in. I will still climb in the winter but that takes back seat to snowboarding! It doesn’t mean our friendship takes a backseat.
Yuna said,
September 9, 2005 @ 9:50 am
Haha.. your two week no show really worried me…;-) Glad that you were back last night.. Great climb..yeah?
3 more weeks …I will be in Co Springs… so no more RJ2 Tuesdays and Thursdays for us anymore… that makes me sad… hopefully we can still do climbing on the weekends… but like you said.. We will all probably ditch the walls for the slopes when snow falls…;-)
Kris said,
September 9, 2005 @ 8:07 pm
Tell you what - convince me to do my Ph.D. at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and I’ll be your reliable climbing partner for life. Or until I get my degree, whichever seems shorter.
Yuna said,
September 10, 2005 @ 1:23 am
how about.. you get a reliable partner for life? good enough?
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