{"id":129,"date":"2015-01-21T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2015-03-16T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T05:39:00","slug":"bouldering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/featured\/bouldering\/","title":{"rendered":"Bouldering"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a kid I loved to climb around on rocks. \u00a0I particularly remember enjoying Ship Rock<\/a>, near Coloma, Wisconsin,\u00a0(N 44\u00b0 01.477 W 089\u00b0 40.513) on the rare occasions when we could stop and play awhile. \u00a0The fact that the rock is the 224th highest mountain in Wisconsin makes it seem insignificant, \u00a0it isn’t. \u00a0My brother and I would climb around on it, but never achieved any dizzying heights and never\u00a0came close to reaching the deck of the ship. \u00a0Nonetheless it was great fun and outstanding exercise.<\/p>\n

Then, there is the sport of ‘bouldering.’ \u00a0It involves climbing rocks too, but in a much more structured and technical way. \u00a0Practitioners of the sport wear special climbing shoes to scale predetermined routes up boulders\u00a0that usually rise to\u00a0no more than about 20 feet from\u00a0the ground. \u00a0In addition to the shoes, chalk is used to keep the climber’s hands dry and a crash pad is sometimes used to prevent serious injuries from a fall. \u00a0No ropes or other devices are used. \u00a0It is essentially a type of free climbing that helps train people\u00a0in the techniques of free climbing witout endangering their lives. \u00a0Indoor climbing walls provide a similar experience and are used in some bouldering competitions.<\/p>\n

If you need a structured or perhaps competitive way to get outdoors (a great commitment\u00a0device<\/a> for many people), or if you just want to learn technical climbing, \u00a0bouldering may be for you. \u00a0Personally, \u00a0I’ll just climb around on rocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bouldering is free climbing without a rope to catch you. Fortunately, the sport stays relatively close to the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activities","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}