This evening’s climbing sesh with Dewachen was full throttle Ropework, Belay Management, Upper Belaying Mechanics and Anchoring, Trad Leading, Multi-Pitch dynamics and Rappelling Anchoring, Set Up and Execution… 

these fundamental technical climbing elements have been witnessed by Dewa since I first took her climbing up a boulder in her Birthplace of Kinlani, AZ 18 years ago in a backpack beneath the Sacred Peak of Doko Oosliid… 

the site of Dewa’s first ever trad multi pitch rock climb…
ilg told her that when a second climbed up and into the hanging belay station of their Leader,
it was a more sacred HOME than any other Outer World Home… for every movement, every piece of protection is literally the
thread of life or death…
100% Mindfulness and Forethought required..

cuz, when it’s your daughter belaying you hundreds of feet up a cliff?
this shit is not fucking soccer… 

up here?

IN A REAL SPORT!?!?

YOU DON’T JUST GRAB YOUR ANKLE AND ACT LIKE YOUR INJURED for some referee on a
gardened arena…  

up here?

IN A REAL SPORT!?!?

YOU GOTTA LEARN HOW TO ABIDE IN YOUR EVERY M(OM)ENT to protect yourself and your partner…

which makes  Climbing probably?  the only TRUE SPORT

the rest?

merely games…

Dewa?
Well Friggin’ Done Baby Girl!

Head bowed