{"id":2016,"date":"2020-07-12T23:29:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T06:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2020-07-12T23:29:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T06:29:23","slug":"bouldering-at-ring-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=2016","title":{"rendered":"Bouldering at Ring Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With no end in sight to this whole pandemic, I&#8217;ve realized that I have to try to return to my life instead of just &#8220;waiting for it to be over.&#8221; Part of that means figuring out how to return to my common hobbies and activities, such as climbing (I&#8217;ve been doing hiking already). Obviously I cannot hone my skills in a gym anymore, but I am fortunate to life in the SF Bay Area, with many opportunities for outdoor climbing. Indeed, I actually got my start climbing outdoors before I ever climbed in a gym (though in recent years I&#8217;d begun going to a gym more often due to convenience).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;d been doing simple body weight exercises to try and maintain, but there are several spots very close to me where I can actually climb too. I love those big exotic camping trip expeditions as much as the next climber, but focusing on smaller local trips that I can do more casually (akin to visiting the gym) will be crucial to maintaining a regular schedule in the months to come. Places like Indian Rock, Glen Canyon, Ring Mountain, Castle Rock, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/50107137306\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Climbing at Ring Mountain\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50107137306_ff8593f375.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Climbing at Ring Mountain\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I&#8217;ve finally pulled myself together enough to start making a habit of climbing again. Shout out to the climbing community: everybody at the crag was wearing a mask and maintained social distance the whole time I was there (it was great). And I saw a praying mantis climbing next to me. My little buggy buddy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/50106568733\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Climbing at Ring Mountain\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50106568733_651f9f9b29.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Climbing at Ring Mountain\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bit by bit I&#8217;m trying to get through this, and also still live my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With no end in sight to this whole pandemic, I&#8217;ve realized that I have to try to return to my life instead of just &#8220;waiting for it to be over.&#8221; Part of that means figuring out how to return to my common hobbies and activities, such as climbing (I&#8217;ve been doing hiking already). Obviously I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=2016\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bouldering at Ring Mountain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248,171,19,1],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climbing-outdoors","category-outdoors","category-personal","category-uncategorized","tag-climbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}