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Climbing an Adrenaline sport? 19-Sep-2007 At 12:55:42 PM Wollemi

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I have found the majority of climbing to be cool and calculated, although the start of third pitch of Holy Guacomole! (in the ACT) involves sprinting down a slab then leaping up and off to grab a bottom corner of a dish. Guess it is the only dyno I have done, and it was a rush - delayed by the 3 or 4 moves that follow until you top out.

I have found the majority of climbing to be cool and calculated, hence my studying YouTube footage of late (google comes up with very little) to see how others rig for bridge swinging - I want to feel some adrenaline, so I'm going to jump off a certain bridge at the foothills of the mountain. Soon.

I am being calculated in my pursuit of adrenaline, hence my use of visualisation and on-paper planning for a sea-kayak crossing of Bass Strait. Heck - I paddle through Sydney Heads to get what rock-climbing cannot offer me with respect to adrenaline.

I have dabbled in ornitholgy - setting up mist nets, measuring and weighing aves, sometimes down to 7.5 grams for an adult female (Eastern Spinebill, I think). Once home or back at work I would rave over the 'living jewels in my hands' that made me chatty - endlessly. Although many didn't relate to bird watching either; I certainly did not receive admonishments as I get when I speak of rock-climbing - which I have learned not to speak of very much at all to non-punters.