Thursday: green route

Ben got his boot off today!  Hooray!  He still needs to wear his shoes while in the house, along with what seems like a half-dozen other restrictions, but at least there is no boot.

I had a little bit of time after dropping Isaac off at rock climbing so I also climbed today.  Isaac told me I should do the red route.  I had watched a woman do it last week and she got stuck at the top, which obviously proceeded to make me nervous.  Isaac told me to just come back down the way I went up.  And so I did.  It was a nice route!  I'm glad he encouraged me to do it, because I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have otherwise.

I also finally finished the 5.9 green route that is on the auto-belay.  The holds aren't my favorite: they are large are look like seashells.  And the worst part is that they don't have good handholds.  I ran it once and got pretty close to the top but got stuck...it was the same place I got stuck in last time.  So I did what I should do before climbing any route and sat down to look at it.  Lo and behold, I found another handhold!  There was one right around the corner that I hadn't noticed.  When I tried the route again it was so much easier and I made it to the top.