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King's Bluff, TN

chris - Posted on 19 January 2008

June 2007 I engaged in an activity I have wanted to attempt for a long time – rock climbing. It was everything and more than I expected. Long story short, I got connected with a guide named Adam Beck (company is Becknology). After emailing back and forth and riding out the winter months, I got on the calendar for June 2nd and my wife and I loaded up the car with our daughter and half a million things to entertain her and headed to Clarksville, TN, home of King’s Bluff, a beautiful climbing area that sits along the Cumberland River.

I met Adam in the morning and after thoroughly reviewing the equipment, safety procedures, and methodology I ascended my first climb on a 5.4 route (Yosemite Decimal System), then a 5.7, and next a 5.8. After a number of climbs Adam instructed me on repelling and we setoff down a 100ft. vertical. He nudged me to climb back up but the height was higher than any I had yet encountered and that fear got the better of me.

That is the life lesson I learned from climbing - In order to continually improve, you have to push yourself into the realm of the uncomfortable until it feels comfortable and then keep moving up. Next time, I will make that climb.

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