went climbing with the caltech alpine club today.

out to point dume just south of zuma beach. fucking awesome, that you go to the beach to go rockclimbing. i sucked, as i haven’t gone in ages. only made it about halfways up (weakweakweak) but it was keen anyway. i think about a 5.7 pitch? something like that. but i got sore, and got to play in the sand and hang out with people and watch other people climbing and eat food and clamber on rocks. good times.

this was actually my first time climbing on real rock, with ropes and harness and what not. also, i learned how to belay, although i didn’t get a chance to try.

Edited to add :

Climbing at the beach!