The Golden Climb
Although the physical climbing site was in Golden, Colorado, today was truly a golden day to climb. After the unexpected snow storm and freezing cold temperature in the early week, this weekend’s weather was simply gorgeous.
Ironically, North Table at Golden is where I did my first outdoor climb back in June. I wrote a post after the climb on Mike’s heavywinter site. At that time, I didn’t have my own blog.
I can definitely tell the differences comparing with 4 months ago when I climbed here with Kevin. Back then, it was all about reaching to the top. And now it is about how I reach to the top. I start to purposely ignore some big holds and look for something harder to experiment a few moves. Hey, I am on a top rope! If I fall, so what! I finally have the skill to maintain the balance and stop at a spot to enjoy the view on the vertical surface. North Table is pretty high up there with the views of Golden and Denver under your feet. Although this is no Aspen, North Table beats most of the climbing sites I went to.
I also witnessed a pretty bad accident today. A lady was leading on a quite tough route (We didn’t have the guidebook so we could only observe). First she clipped the quickdraw in a wrong way, and then she placed her leg under the rope. When she missed her clip, she took a hard fall and flipped upside down, knocked her head on the rock and scratched up her leg pretty badly. And, she didn’t wear a helmet. Although she was lucky enough to walk away without serious head injury, that was a plain stupid act. You gotta know your shit when it comes to extreme sports. I am an indoor 5.8 lead climber and I will never attempt an outdoor lead until I feel really comfortable with indoor 5.9. By looking at how she climbed, she was simply not qualified to lead on such a hard route. In my opinion, the people who will most likely get hurt in any extreme sports (climbing included) are either the beginners who are trying to pull some stunts, or the ass-kickers who trust themselves way too much and neglect the safety measurements. So, it’s important to know your limit and believe that shit could happen at anytime to anybody no matter how good you are. My 2 cents. 
Anyway, check out the Golden Climb album. There are quite a few cool pictures (Matt’s dog went all the way to the top and gave me an unexpected “job well done” congrats. That was cute!)
Kris said,
October 17, 2005 @ 8:23 am
Great photos!
I can’t wait to climb outdoors.
kimmi said,
October 17, 2005 @ 8:42 am
yeah!! the dog is cute! whats his/her name?? love dogs, ohhhh sorry, have little interests in climbing though
Yuna said,
October 17, 2005 @ 9:03 am
Matt told me at least a few time … but I am too bad with names unless it’s Mike or Dave. That’s a 6 year old boy who likes my chocolate cookie.
Thomas took most of the good photos. When I saw the pictures of Doug climbing that slab with the sun shining on his back, I was like.. “wow.. these can be magazine shots…” Outdoor is 10 times better than indoor.. Kris, you will have plenty of routes to play with once you are out of the flat Miami…;-)
Travelling Aussie said,
October 19, 2005 @ 1:43 am
What a great shot of you climbing and the dog at the top. You should enter it in to the Nikon USA monthly competition on there web site.
mountaincurmudgeon said,
October 19, 2005 @ 8:39 am
Yeah, but everybody knows that sport climbing isn’t dangerous…Right, Chalk Abuser?
By the way, why isn’t the dog wearing a helmet?
Yuna said,
October 19, 2005 @ 6:02 pm
cuz mountaincurmudgon hasnt made one for the dog and size does matter when it comes to dog’s head vs. human’s head..
Yuna said,
October 19, 2005 @ 6:09 pm
traveling Aussie, do you have a website URL for Nikon USA monthly?
mountaincurmudgeon said,
October 20, 2005 @ 10:39 am
I’ve never been in the helmet manufacturing business…I wash my hands of your now documented lack of K9 climbing safety.
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