http://www.thechalkbag.com/2009/02/climbing-carnage/ Bouldering Blog for the Casual Climber Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:13:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.thechalkbag.com/2009/02/climbing-carnage/comment-page-1/#comment-23 patrick_jean Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:56:13 +0000 http://www.thechalkbag.com/?p=226#comment-23 When climbing a route that including jamming, my Uncle proudly exclaimed that to prove you climbed well and to the best of your ability, you needed to be bleeding by the end of the climb. At first I thought it strange for him to say but by the end of the climb, I knew what he meant. It brought a sense of accomplishment and an "I owned this" attitude when I looked down at my knucles and saw them scraped and bleeding. When climbing a route that including jamming, my Uncle proudly exclaimed that to prove you climbed well and to the best of your ability, you needed to be bleeding by the end of the climb. At first I thought it strange for him to say but by the end of the climb, I knew what he meant. It brought a sense of accomplishment and an “I owned this” attitude when I looked down at my knucles and saw them scraped and bleeding.

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