I am sorry for my temporary hiatus from blogging. Last week was spring break and I was too busy to blog.
I will talk about my travel experiences soon, but today I want to talk about climbing.
Recently I have been climbing a lot. I started at the wall at css, and sense the
end of last semester I have been hooked.
Coming to Ireland I was disappointed to find that there was
very little climbing to be had in or around Louisbourgh (I have heard of one
group but haven’t been able to find them yet.)
Therefore, in coming to Dublin and going on spring break I
decided that I really wanted to climb at some point. After a little poking around on the internet
I found this, and after some asking around in the class I found some
willing adventurers.
The whole group did a tour of Kilmahnem Gaol as one of the
last things for the day today, then a pack of four of us split off in search of
this bouldering wall.
We were in a completely forign city with little to go on
other than my memory of the google map location.
Nonetheless we walked confidently into what seemed to be a
few blocks of storage units.
Noticing a sign for “Gravity” our confidence was bolstered,
and we soon pulled open the door with a handle made of a climbing hold. We walked in, to the front desk, and introduced
ourselves. The two women working the
desk seemed a little surprised that a group of four Americans who had never
been to Dublin before had found their gym, but they were very helpful despite
their surprise.
The gym was excellent. There were many routs that were
suitable for all levels of climber. If
you ever find yourself looking for a place to climb in Dublin, I would
recommend it.
We climbed for about two hours, then we started our walk
back.
Google Maps says the walk should take us an hour and six
minutes. We thought that we could to it
in much less time. However, between
stopping for a street burger and not being completely sure of where we were
going, we ended up taking the whole hour.
It was a great adventure; I was very happy to get the chance
to climb. The group we had was just the
right size, and we all had a dandy time.
As always your comments are appreciated.
Climbing part two is on its way
Thanks,
Willie
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