In the morning hours of the day, the crew set out to Castle Rock State Park for a much anticipated climbing outing. Three experienced climbing school instructors helped us get proper gear on, and led us up to the climbing rock. We attempted multiple courses set up on the rock. They were all challenging, but were great fun to figure out how to reach the top. Many crew members enjoyed figuring out how to position themselves to get around a protruding rock shelf, and to find the sturdiest foot and hand holds that they could push themselves higher.
We also had great fun climbing all together into caves that were a part of the large climbing rock. There were some interesting holes in the side of the caves that we could look out of and even watch each other climb past. Overall, the climbing outing was challenging physically for many, but it was a great amount of challenge that left us with much satisfaction.
By Katie