The weekend bouldering

The weekend was really nice. The weather could have been better since the rocks were wet and such some of them could not be climbed but it didn't rain or anything. On Saturday it was actually rather perfect in the afternoon with the sun shining and everything. The place and the rocks were great. There were just like tons of these huge blocks right in the forest. It was like regular forest and then suddenly there was this big bunch of rocks in an area of like a kilometer or so. Or well there were like many areas with such rocks in the area and we visited four.

I got on top of a few of the rocks too. It was kind of scary to climb up like 2 or more meters and then to actually get back down. It seems like as a kid it would have been no problem but now as I've gotten used to climbing with a rope it was just scary. I kind of got used to it as the day went by but the next day it was sort of the same thing again. We did have this pad thing under us while we climbed but other than softening the fall it kind of gave no special security to the thing. But I think it was fun so I would like to go bouldering, that's what it's called, again.

I really liked just hanging out outside and walking round the rocks too. Like when they were in big bunches and you kind of had to sort of climb a bit to get past or between them. It wasn't so scary and loads of fun. I'm not a big "out in the wild nature" sort of person but just going round a specific interesting are for the whole day and stopping to climb interesting boulders really seemed like the kind of thing for me. Of course the fact that we spent nights in a hotel in stead of like a tent helped a lot even though the hotel was really crappy. Well it's sort of like going to pick berries at Laajavuori when the point of the trip is just not brisk walking around but actually looking for things it's a whole lot more fun and you don't even notice that you actually walk quite far and get exercise.

So yeah. I think I actually want to start spending more time walking around the woods. Of course the fact that we had dogs along for the trip made it loads nicer too even though the little one was quite annoying barking all the time. Maybe there's a dog in Jyväskylä I could borrow when I get back. Else I might have to do something crazy and steal Ransu away for like a week in the summer or something. It wouldn't hurt him to ahve achange of scenery though I think it would hurt my neighbors.