Introducing... lead climbing!

Andrew was tired from writing some paper (what’s that?), and all I wanted to do was climb. A lot. For the past week it rained, and it was finally nice out; so I was ready to crush. All right, maybe not crush, but climb a bunch of routes at least. To be honest, I was craving some serious pump. So when I had my harness on, shoes on and the rope flaked in front of metamorphosis, a pretty long 8 at one of our favorite crags, Andrew gave a sly remark that maybe I should lead it. Up until today, I have been only following climbs that Andrew and Hannah have done, which means that I have been on toprope. Leading is essentially a much scarier version; especially if you afraid of heights, but what the heck, I was going to have to suck it up eventually. I grabbed the quickdraws, gave Andrew his belay device and told him fine, so thus began my day of lead climbing. It wasn’t pretty, but so far I have gone as far as sending a 10a and am working on a 10c, which I’m pretty sure I can do if my fear of heights is having a good day.