Saturday, March 04, 2006
Conejo Mountain rock climbing
Today, Tala Keith and I went climbing at Mystery Science Theater in the Conejo Mountain area (near Woodland Hills). The rock was hard, pokey, and finger hurting. The climbs were low-rated but difficult and Keith was a little nervous lead climbing (but not as nervous as I was lead belaying).
Tala had a fun day outdoors and has proven herself to be an excellent climbing companion. She patiently waits at the bottom of the rock and watches both climber and belayer with rapt attention. If you call her when you are halfway up a climb (15 or so feet in the air) and tell her “up-up” she even runs around and appears to attempt to comply (unsuccessfully obviously).
The approach was the most strenuous part of the adventure. Although a fire-road gives fairly easy access to the climbs, it was fenced off some time ago after a guy hurt himself up near the rocks. We had to bushwhack our way through the chaparral and up a big old mountain. Hard work!
Tala had a fun day outdoors and has proven herself to be an excellent climbing companion. She patiently waits at the bottom of the rock and watches both climber and belayer with rapt attention. If you call her when you are halfway up a climb (15 or so feet in the air) and tell her “up-up” she even runs around and appears to attempt to comply (unsuccessfully obviously).
The approach was the most strenuous part of the adventure. Although a fire-road gives fairly easy access to the climbs, it was fenced off some time ago after a guy hurt himself up near the rocks. We had to bushwhack our way through the chaparral and up a big old mountain. Hard work!
// posted by Behavior Analyst @ 8:52 PM 
