On Sunday we managed to get to the climbing wall at Newton Aycliffe. Rock Antics is situated in the leisure centre at NA. It's got numerous walls and a variety of grades from easy to 'never could i climb that in a life time'. There are also a few bouldering 'problems' which also range from easy to rock hard. The staffing levels seem to change like the weather which means you don't know who's climbing or supervising but everyone has a giggle. Kelly and me normally potter about on the bouldering wall as I'm actually afraid of heights inside the climbing wall but OK outdoors climbing, weird but true. Anyway, Kelly's recovering from a bad back so she decided to just get back into it with a bit of bouldering and belaying me on the climbing wall. I'm not Adam Ondra by any stretch of the imagination but i love the climb. Kelly is a lot better than me but i don't usually admit it, neither does she but she does know it (bless her). She has good arms and a light body, ideal for climbing, probably would have done well if she'd had kept it up but circumstances meant she didn't carry it on after learning in the church brigade. I did a bit in the army but as you're never in one place for more than 6 months it's hard to keep anything going where you need certain requirements. I spent 6 months in Saudi in 1991 after the war had finished and had ample time time to climb in the Wadi's (dried river beds) which was quite exciting. But all things come to an end and had no chance when i got back.
On Sunday we managed to get to the climbing wall at Newton Aycliffe. Rock Antics is situated in the leisure centre at NA. It's got numerous walls and a variety of grades from easy to 'never could i climb that in a life time'. There are also a few bouldering 'problems' which also range from easy to rock hard. The staffing levels seem to change like the weather which means you don't know who's climbing or supervising but everyone has a giggle. Kelly and me normally potter about on the bouldering wall as I'm actually afraid of heights inside the climbing wall but OK outdoors climbing, weird but true. Anyway, Kelly's recovering from a bad back so she decided to just get back into it with a bit of bouldering and belaying me on the climbing wall. I'm not Adam Ondra by any stretch of the imagination but i love the climb. Kelly is a lot better than me but i don't usually admit it, neither does she but she does know it (bless her). She has good arms and a light body, ideal for climbing, probably would have done well if she'd had kept it up but circumstances meant she didn't carry it on after learning in the church brigade. I did a bit in the army but as you're never in one place for more than 6 months it's hard to keep anything going where you need certain requirements. I spent 6 months in Saudi in 1991 after the war had finished and had ample time time to climb in the Wadi's (dried river beds) which was quite exciting. But all things come to an end and had no chance when i got back. 
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