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Sunday, May 17, 2015

The Smith Rock Climbing Guides Are The Mentors Of This Generation

By Tammie Caldwell


Arizona is a well-known Mecca for climbers, as shown on many documentaries as well as scenes in various Hollywood movies. Sites like Red Rocks are world-famous for the challenge they pose to individuals willing to face that fear. Nestled within that area is a school that can help them perfect their technique, with a few tips from the Smith Rock climbing guides.

The American Mountain Guides Association has granted this school an official accreditation, and students are in love with their program. Nothing challenges a person quite like defying the natural laws of gravity, along with their own animal instinct which tells them to stay on the ground. The boost of confidence one receives when they challenge themselves up against a wall of rock can help treat most forms of depression, social anxiety, and drug addiction.

The standard SRCS guide has many years of experience as climbers, having gone from Nepal to the Andes Mountains and thrown themselves against their cliffs. The experience they bring to the people wishing to perfect these skills helps to enhance the lives of the students, who may go on one day to save lives during a climb. It is a special sort of person, one willing to expand their own limitations by engaging in this particular hobby.

The average guide comes from a family who liked to climb, and many of them have been on the rocks and the ski slopes from a very early age. Anyone who has gone to the gyms that specialize in climbs and repelling has probably seen small children. Young people lack the instinctive fear of heights, and there is nothing like seeing a three or four-year-old climb like a little spider monkey, in any direction as effortlessly as an adult walks up a flight of stairs.

While parents generally do not bring very small children on a serious climb, once the age of adolescence has arrived, many young people become students. Those who have been engaged in the hobby with their parents for years are already well on their way to becoming successful instructors, paid to indulge the hobby that they love while also providing guidance to adults with less experience.

For anyone with weight issues, fifteen minutes engaged in a serious climb will provide them with the same workout they might get in an hour-long fitness tape. The soreness and tightness of muscles is a pleasant sensation for the human body. Engaging in this hobby one or two times a week will provide a person with all they need to meet their physical fitness goals.

The instruction and encouragement from a qualified guide converts dangers involved to a controlled element. Students learn to gauge their climbs for the length of time needed, as well as how much equipment and rope they might want to carry. The activity itself is an excellent form of therapy, and people come to this school to overcome phobias, depression, drug and alcohol addiction, and even social anxiety.

Many people view these hobbies as being too dangerous to indulge themselves and their families in. The fact is, life is dangerous, and every time a family walks out there door, life provides no guarantees that everyone, or anyone, will return safely. However, when a person is willing to challenge their own threshold of fear and panic, they come out knowing that they have the ability to face whatever is to come.




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