The thing I miss most about the Climbing Clan weekends isn’t climbing, it’s community.
On this trip just before lockdown, Antonio got everyone helping make dinner – and what a dinner it was! Lots to chop? No problem, everyone wants to help. Inadequate hobs? No problem, we can make it work. Inadvisable batman toe hangs? No worries, I’ll spot you!
One of the really hard things to explain about Climbing Clan weekends sounds too twee when I say it: “You may arrive as strangers, but you leave as friends.” But no matter what the weather, what you’ve accomplished, how few people you knew when you arrived – this always seems to be the case.
Right now, I’m looking at the weekends away we have planned in the autumn and hoping we can make them run. I can’t wait to go away with the Clan again ©
Originally posted on this post on Instagram
