Dry-Tool Party

The idea was to have a summer party horseshoes and barbecue then Jeremy came with his five beautiful children I got them cold soft-drinks they milled about so I asked Jeremy if they would want to try the climbing wall, "Sure," he replied, "Let's check it out."


What resulted was a seven-hour-long session in which all manner of adults, children, and sub-adults cranked around my climbing gym. The new Super-Panel was a big hit with its user-luscious Atomik holds although all of the surfaces were mobbed.


When you train in your own gym alone much of the time watching other people swarm about can be very cool indeed. People climbed barefoot in borrowed rock-shoes open-hand and dry-tool some of the kids in particular were enthralled sending non-stop having to be dragged off the wall by their parents when bed-time rolled around.


Me I put in one demonstration lap early-on but afterwards was too busy supervising other than a brief dinner break the wall saw continuous use until well into the evening when the kids all went nighty-night and the adult swim began.

Under the pulsing Kingston Jamaica sounds the dry-tool enthusiasts sampled the new Super-Panel with its awkward incline mix of slippery dishes and occult drilled pockets. Waiting in the wings the standing new panel waited in great patience to be set but this was not to be. The night belonged to climbing not engineering quieter times being needed for construction.


Can't wait for the Winter Solstice bon-fire & dry-tool extravaganza...