Re: Wanted: Climbing partner(s)

My wife and I are looking for regular, reliable, safe, outdoor climbing partner(s). We climb every weekend unless its raining. We have a 9 month old baby boy we bring with us and we always like to have at least one extra person to keep an eye on him. We have several climbing friends but none are really regular.

I've been climbing 15 years and climb to grade 23. My wife climbs to about 21.
I have plenty of ropes and gear. We are very safety conscious and usually top rope unless leading is unavoidable.

Please let me know if you are interested.

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Hi,

I think I can help you with this, as I'm also a compulsive risk taker who refuses to face up to responsibility.

Let me also say I think it's great you and your wife are competitive and constantly one-upping each other. I'd be all like 'oooh, you had a baby, well I can climb to grade 23, so in your FACE.'

The kid sounds like a bit of a drag, was it unplanned by any chance? I know what that's like as I've bought lots of things before, then you get home and it's like 'gee this sucks.'

Have you considered stuffing him in your backpack and climbing with it on? As long as there's alcohol, I'm happy to sit on the ground with your kid, but I've always wanted to be in that situation where you're holding someone, but the glove is slipping. I'll say 'hold on, hold on' and you or your wife will say 'I'm slipping, I'm slipping.'

We can have all the ropes, so you just dangle there, not smash into the jagged rocks below. I think that could be quite confronting for your kid and might put him off rock climbing for life.

He would also need to join children without parents or something like that because I'm not babysitting him if you're not there, it would just be too weird. When he gets older he might get mad and scream things at me like 'you're the drunk babysitter who let go of my Dad on the mountain, I'm going to kill you.'

FS