Grant Johnson here, I am currently a sophomore in high school at Mason City High School. This blog was created for my composition class. I will be updating approximately once a week. I will try to steer my blog towards the main idea of mountain climbing because that currently interests me quite a bit.
I have some beginner climbing experience. I actually wouldn't really consider it climbing so much as hiking a trail to a peak. I have climbed three fourteeners in Colorado. Fourtneeners are mountains that are 14,000 feet or above. I also climbed a peak that was under 14,000 but we climbed the harder side of the mountain, which was much harder than the fourtneeners I had climbed because the officials didn't waste the governments money marking and building a trail for a mountain that wasn't a fourteener. Anyways, my dad and I climbed straight up the side of the mountain... which was mostly all broken rocks. The standard technique for climbing fourteeners is by hiking switchbacks, which are trails that go upward to a slant and then go back the opposite way. This is easier than going straight up because when you climb straight up you can easily slide down and going straight up requires much more effort. The mountain that was under 14,000 feet was pretty sketchy to climb. Sometimes when you were stepping from one rock to another the rock would slide under your feet and even a couple times the rocks would be very unstable. It's sounds a lot scarier than it looks, when your climbing mountains like these, you can see down 5,000 feet and you think you're going to fall there but, really when you fall you just land right where you were originally standing. It was even sketchier going down but, by the end of the day my father and I made it out alive.
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