I have told the girls for months that the next time it rains on a Saturday we will go rock climbing well this Saturday it pored so they wanted to collect on my promise. We called Erin and Reuben as well as Jared to see if they wanted to join us and of course they did. We met at Clime Time at 4:00pm and climbed for several hours. We had an absolute blast.(information from Climb Time's Home page)
Top roping is where most people start. It is normally done in pairs. One person stands on the ground and holds a belay device. This is a sort of brake through which the rope runs, and the person with this device is called the belayer. The rope goes from the belay device up to the top of the wall, through an anchor, then down to the second person, the climber. As the climber moves up the wall, the belayer gathers in the excess rope and watches the climber attentively. If the climber falls at any point, the belayer locks the rope and arrests the climbers fall.
