{"id":1966,"date":"2012-06-22T13:58:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T19:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2012-06-22T13:58:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T19:58:01","slug":"learning-to-sport-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/2012\/06\/22\/learning-to-sport-climb\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Sport Climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from learning to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sport_climbing\">sport climb<\/a> near Canmore. Despite the rainy forecast we actually got a fair bit of nice weather and had a great time! We climbed near Grassi Lakes, Heart Creek, and Wasootch. I can&#8217;t wait to get out again and try some lead climbing, as well as some more creative photography. It&#8217;s hard to concentrate on photography while I&#8217;m learning another thing entirely, but as I get more comfortable with climbing the quality of the photos should go up. Which probably means I should go to the climbing gym, but that&#8217;s not nearly as fun as climbing outdoors. Here are a few photos I did manage to get on our trip.<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<br \/>\nBeing belayed down after a successful climb.<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_1_placeholder<br \/>\nReg belaying as Seb leads one of the routes near Grassi Lakes.<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_2_placeholder<br \/>\nMike climbing near Grassi.<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_3_placeholder<br \/>\nSeb rappelling down after cleaning the route.<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_4_placeholder<br \/>\nEnjoying a snack break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from learning to sport climb near Canmore. Despite the rainy forecast we actually got a fair bit of nice weather and had a great time! We climbed near Grassi Lakes, Heart Creek, and Wasootch. I can&#8217;t wait to get out again and try some lead climbing, as well as some more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1974,3],"tags":[2283,2281,2280,2277,2272,2285,2271,2273,2275,2282,269,2279,2270,2278,2284,2276,2274,487],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rocks-2","category-travel","tag-belaying","tag-canmore","tag-climb","tag-climbing","tag-climbing-gym","tag-climbing-techniques","tag-creative-photography","tag-grassi-lakes","tag-heart-creek","tag-learning","tag-outdoors","tag-rainy","tag-rainy-forecast","tag-rappelling","tag-route","tag-snack-break","tag-successful-climb","tag-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1977,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions\/1977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}