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Indoor climbing in a gym can be challenging, to say the least, especially for first-timers. They have to scale walls dozens-of-feet high in the air, sometimes while other people watch - people who might laugh or sneer at newcomers making fools of themselves, all in front of a live audience, no less. And it costs money, too. Paying cash for self-imposed torture is downright logic-defying for most people.
That is, until they try it.
Climbing indoors, scary or not, definitely has rewards. Just ask Mark Leffler, owner of Rocknasium, Davis's very own indoor climbing gym, located at 720 Olive Drive, Suite Z. He's a seasoned pro at scaling rocks and walls, but even he knows what it's like to be intimidated by steep heights.
"Back in '87, some friends took me to Yosemite climbing, and I just enjoyed it," he says. "It was so scary that it was very attractive for me because of the challenge of the mind over matter. Even to this day, I've been climbing for that long and done some big things on El Capitan and other places, and still. if you're not doing it all the time, you get out there, that height, it can affect you."
While outdoor climbing is indeed fearsome, that same fear definitely applies to indoor climbing as |
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