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Climber of the Month – October

Every month we’re planning to crown a “Climber of the Month”, which is someone we feel have made great progress with their climbing, have participated in both sessions and socials or have positively impacted the team and so on!

This month the committee has decided that Bride Kamp fits this description perfectly!

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Bride’s hardly skipped a session this month, and has impressed us with her climbing skills.
When not on the wall, she’s a mood booster and can put a smile on anyone’s face!

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We’re excited to see what grades she’ll be climbing at the end of the year, and what climbers will stand out in November!

Trust exercises presented by NRCC

There’s lots to do at climbing; sometimes it doesn’t even include actual climbing.

Today, we took the opportunity to be monkeys for a little while

It worked fairly well, for most of us, despite falling down from time to time and being slapped by your friends behind your back..

And even if we couldn’t do it by ourselves, team mates are always there to help!

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Anything is possible with a little help from friends!

Some of us did do some actual climbing, but most of it happened before the camera came out, although there is some evidence.

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And some of us had to climb with a bit of difficulty due to mischievous team mates…

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In addition to all this climbing and “climbing”, there were times even most of us are unsure of what was going on…

Thanks for a great session guys, see you Wednesday for more NRCC antics!

 

 

 

Ice Climbing at Snow Factor in Glasgow

We’re always looking for new styles of climbing to try out, and yesterday we got the chance in Glasgow!

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13 keen climbers got in the mini bus and off we went to Snow Factor. You’d think we’d travelled out of Scotland and entered a Winter Wonderland, and it was definitely not September anymore.

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Cold or warm, no weather stops the NRCC, and up the wall our climbers went!

As well as climbing, some of us took the opportunity to hit the slopes for some skiing and snowboarding. No point wasting such a beautiful, snowy day!

With frozen hands and wet socks we got back in the mini bus, all ready for bouldering at Alien Rock the day after, once our forearms stop hurting from all the axe whacking needed to scale the ice walls.

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