New Female Climber On the Scene!

[Mark Chisholm]

Here's a shot of my six year old daughter "Lexi" climbing a rock wall for the first time. She made it to the top with no slips. The guys working there praised her. I heard one say "that little girl is killin the wall". All smiles! /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[klimbinfool]

thats neat Mark. I wish I could climb a wall. Never done one before.Looks like fun.

Greg

 

[NickfromWI]

Go lexi!

Greg, have someone take you to the real thing. It's much more....real

love
nick

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Go Lexi!

 

[klimbinfool]

NIck, I get alot of people asking me if I rock climb.To tell you the truth, I have no interest in climbing friggin rocks. I think i would be scared to death..lol

Greg

 

[Kevin]

Is the belay on a sternal D, have they moved the belay to the front of the climber to keep their teeth out of the rock in the event of a fall?
What's the proper belay position for tree climbers and pole climbers, front as well?

 

[treebear]

Great pic. Just got a children´s harness from Edelrid, the plan is to learn my six years old granddoughter to climb trees next time she comes to see me. Keep you posted.
Svein
www.hogstogrydding.no

 

[Mahk_Adams]

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Here's a shot of my six year old daughter "Lexi" climbing...

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Cool!!! /forum/images/graemlins/applaudit.gif ........Is she climbing trees yet? Is there a minimum age for the ITCC...?

 

[NickfromWI]

Kev- for a grown up rock climber, the attachment of the climbing line is to the belay loop, just below the belly button. Little kids (Lexi's size) might use a full body harness with a loop at chest level. Little kids tend to be top heavy and might invert (flip upside down) if tied in with a traditional rock climbing harness.

Tree climbers use similar harnesses with some sort of frontal attachment points in the crotchal region. Pole climbers probably are attached via a lanyard connected to the side d-rings.

love
nick

 

[Rich_O]

It's so much fun having the kids climb. I got both of my nephews saddles for x-mas. I thought their mom was going to kill me when she saw I had the both of them in my elm.Plus my wife was not to pleased when the dinner guests all came out side to watch.

 

[Kevin]

The V-2 BOD has fall arrest front and back, sternal and dorsal.

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Two fall arrest attachment points (sternal and dorsal) on adjustable Vshaped shoulder straps.

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[Tom Dunlap]

My brother's girls, 8 & 9, both have their own climbing gear. They can tie their knots on their own too. Jim double checks them of course. It's fun climbing with them

 

[hl_tree]

She takes after her father.

On a side note kind of, at my old high school they had an indoor rock climbing wall for use during gym class. Never seen that at other high schools.

 

[treebear]

Here you go: My six years old granddoughter climbing her first tree.
Svein
www.hogstogrydding.no /forum/images/graemlins/applaudit.gif

 

[glens]

It hadn't finished up-loading properly.

Here's most of what came in of the little darling, shrunk, sharpened, cropped and lightened a bit.

Glen

 

[treebear]

You made a great job om the pic Glens, should have done it myself. Thanks!
She´s coming to stay for a week soon, then we´ll do some more climbing.
Svein
www.hogstogrydding.no

 

[pantheraba]

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Here's most of what came in of the little darling,...

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That is a great picture...worthy of framing. She will love looking at it over the years...so will YOU.

Looks like she is happy and having a great time.

 

[Colin]

That's cool as all get-out! I bet kids don't even sweat when they climb...