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Personal Writing: Rock Climbing

When my brother,19, offered to take me rock climbing out at Ortega Falls I was thrilled to go. We left our Dana Point house at about 10:00 in the morning, and started down the Ortega Highway. On the way out we were following a cement truck along the twisting, turning road. Suddenly my brother cursed under his breath. I looked at him surprisingly and asked "What's wrong?" He started to laugh and slowly took his foot off the accelerator, and rhetorically said "We're following that cement truck, right?" I nodded. "Well he's going 85 down this road." Luckily we were only about a mile from the turn off so we slowed down to 75 miles an hour.
When we pulled off the side of the road we ...

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scrub brush. While on the way down I was thinking both about how bad my legs were getting cut from the brush, but also about not slipping on the sandy trail. The mile long hike, downhill, was nothing but a warm up for me and my brother who are avid backpackers and trail hikers.
When we reached the bottom there were signs of past water flow through here during the winter months. Then the water would be six feet deep and ten feet wide. We crossed over the rocky river bed and headed to the intermediate climbs off to the left. Both my brother and I are avid boulders (climbing without ropes) so this nothing new to either of us. Nathan went up first, so I could watch and get a feel for the grip locations. When he reached the top, about 30 feet high, he came back down on a side path and said, "Your turn." I got up on the wall just fine and was doing fine until I got about ž of the way up I heard him yell up "Hold on while I go back up!" I pressed my self against the wall so I ...

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Added: 5/25/2005 03:04:23 PM
Category: Creative Writing
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