Skywalker Redux
The main reason I started this blog is for myself to re-live the memories of climbing and see how much I progress. I had no intention of writing about climbing Skywalker that I climbed a few weeks ago because it really didn’t stand out that much any more. However, after reading my last experience up there, I guess I should share the new climb almost exactly a year later.
This time around, the best way to describe the climb is just simply fun. Gone were any pre-climb jitters, any self doubt, any imagining of a body tumbling like a rag doll down a steep snow slope. We took a rest at the half way point where I decided to go down last time and I was just enjoying the views and thinking to myself how lucky I was to love in Colorado. As we progressed to the steeper sections, I’d look down and thought how amusing it was that even if I fell, I could arrest myself without any problems. Everything was just easy, uncomplicated and fun. The Arapahoe peaks traverse was equally fun although a little edgier in some spots.
Further proof that with enough work, it is possible to overcome almost anything.