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Consequence vs Risk in Rock Climbing

Consequence vs Risk in Rock Climbing

Everybody struggles with consequence vs. risk in rock climbing. Trad climbing, sport climbing, ice climbing, bouldering, free soloing, and indoor climbing involve times when you must internally compete between consequence and risk. But what exactly is the difference...
Switching To BETA

Switching To BETA

Monday, 12 August 2024 Your time at our gyms shouldn’t be bogged down by software issues, glitches, or outages. Unfortunately, our current software is at the end of its software lifespan. Just too many recurring problems and outages.  We’ve been searching for new...
The History of Sport Climbing in the U.S.

The History of Sport Climbing in the U.S.

Alan Watts is responsible for the massive success of sport climbing in the United States. Today, in almost every area of the country, sport climbing has helped introduce people to the activity who may never have had the chance. With the addition of preplaced bolts,...
Creating More Diversity in Our Climbing Community

Creating More Diversity in Our Climbing Community

Left to right: Vanessa Brias, Carrie Roccos, Mardi Roberts Creating More Diversity in Our Climbing Community Author: Steve Wartenberg steve.wartenberg@gmail.com Mardi Roberts attended an event for the owners of multiple indoor rock-climbing gyms during the recent 2022...
Family time around the fire

Family time around the fire

We have a new member of the family here at 5.life and it has made me reflect on family and community especially in light of the last 15+ months. As a young family that was transferred far from home in the early 90s, the climbing community in Central and Southern Ohio...
Family time around the fire

KISS

Keep It Simple to Send (OR Keep it Simple to Succeed) At it’s core climbing is a pretty simple activity. Go up. Not much more to it than that. We humans tend to make things way too complicated. Why do we choose to ‘Go Up?’ Because it’s there. (Quote attributed to...