About Climbing

About Climbing

Rock Climbing New Heights

Have you ever wanted to push the envelope?
Have you ever wanted to try something entirely new?
Do you need to exercise?
Do you want do exercise, but hate the mundane repetitions required to get in shape?
Do you want to see interesting places, go hiking with a purpose, and see God's creation first hand? Experience what Jesus did from a pillar high above.
Do you want to meet some of the most interesting people?
Do you want to be one of those interesting people?

And learn about TRUST??

trust (noun) 1. Firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing

Try Rock Climbing!!

Rock climbing will push you your comfort level way off the chart.
You will learn that you have more abilities than you could have imagined.
You learn that you can be an adventurous that you have the ability to conquer new abilities.
You can suppress fears to over come obstacles that you though were too big to conquer.
See Gods creation, hike to places you would never have ventured before.

Learn about equipment, techniques for better and more efficiently, belaying, anchors that keep you safe, and rappelling.
We'll focus on top-roped climbs and all equipment will be provided. We start with equipment use, knots, and belaying, then progress to simple movement on rock. You then integrate all your new skills while practicing on a variety of different climbs.

This is not a cell group like others.
You won't have to choose this over any other group. You can consider it an activity in addition to anything else the church has to offer.

What Others have said about Rock Climbing

It is a well known fact that a wilderness experience can effect one person so deeply that it profoundly alters his or her view of self and
reality to the positive, changing a person's life for months and
sometimes years after the experience.

You probably aren't sure whether you want to take up climbing. Your mind says no, but in your heart you want to learn to climb. You go out to pick yourself up a sleeping bag or tent, then find yourself admiring the bright patterns woven into the coils of rope that hang on the walls behind the counter. The shiny collection of cams and stoppers, harnesses with lots of straps and buckles, and those strange looking climbing shoes, you're intrigued! In the mountains the sight of high peaks and clouds all washed in heavenly light and shadow, leaves you wondering what it would be like to look down from their summits. You know climbing could be exciting, but on the other hand you don't want to get killed doing it!

Climbing is thick with mystique, and no other sport may be more misconstrued by those outside of it. It is a favored subject for "B" movies and spurious metaphors.

A dream about scaling tall rock faces is something a psychiatrist can really sink his teeth into. Climbing is filled with legends of boldness and disaster that make other sports out to be inconsequential games; as an idea, it strikes that chord in the imagination most often associated with sharks, grizzly bears and killer bees. A terror of falling from high places is one of the most deeply rooted human fears. So now what?

The rock wall looms steeply above us, its blank face offering no clues to the way up. Accepting the challenge, we tie tightly into our ropes, re-check our
harnesses, step up and begin to read the rock. A good finger crack here, a ledge for the toe there and soon we're aloft, climbing high above the trees.

Rock climbing: Combining caution, concentration and exhilaration in equal doses. There's no sport quite like it.

How to Rock Climb! (How to Rock Climb Series)
by John Long (Author)