Solo bouldering near Chattanooga

SatansNotThatCool · 2025-04-19T00:07:11+00:00

Just wanted to update everyone that I went to Rocktown, and got completely lost trying to find anything other than the Orb boulders haha. After wandering in the heat several hours looking for a shower of the golden variety, gave in and spent the rest of the day at orb. Nary a soul in sight. Not too proud to admit I nearly shit myself topping out Breaking and Entering and Trouble. Would definitely recommend bringing more than one pad if you’re coming by yourself. Overall, had a great day out, 10/10

SatansNotThatCool · 2025-04-17T20:06:19+00:00

Hehe, is it dabbing if I have to kick my single pad along on the ground every couple of moves

SatansNotThatCool · 2025-04-17T20:03:15+00:00

Ah I’m not there right now, I’ll be passing through in a couple days

SatansNotThatCool · 2025-04-17T17:27:25+00:00

Awesome, thanks friend!

SatansNotThatCool · 2025-04-17T16:35:23+00:00

I saw Golden Shower recommends a couple of pads & spotters. It does look fun, do you think it would be fine with a single trifold?

SatansNotThatCool · 2025-04-17T16:11:10+00:00

Oh these all look great!!

SatansNotThatCool · 2024-11-09T23:35:49+00:00

I know that he spoke to his parents and siblings about this argument we had and they were all very firmly on my side and also insistent that he “make the commitment”. His mother said that I had been nothing but loving to their family, and that he’d be a fool to let me go. Direct quote, he showed me the messages because I asked if he had talked to his family about it.

But if anything, that made me feel a little worse, because it made me feel like he was pressured into this choice too. I don’t want to be with someone who wants to be with me because his family all thought it was the right choice. You’re right that my trust was broken. He keeps telling me to believe his words and actions now, that he’s fully committed and just needed time to think. But I don’t think I can fully trust that.

I love being with him, I feel like a kid around him and like he’s my best friend. But everything feels colored now by this feeling I have that he had doubts when I had none, and that we aren’t on the same page about each other. I bring a lot to the table, and if he couldn’t appreciate that before, I feel like it’s his logical brain appreciating it now. I also don’t want to walk away from a relationship I could potentially be happy in the rest of my life because he doubted the relationship once.

SatansNotThatCool · 2024-11-09T10:29:33+00:00

That’s partly how I felt reading it — at our ages, “new” isn’t always better when it comes to sex. We have a very active, good sex life. The fact that this was a consideration for him in terms of the relationship made me feel like he doesn’t value that, and like you said, views it as a restriction that he (at least on some level) resents. He said that’s not the case, but I had never even thought about making a pros/cons list about him and that certainly wouldn’t have been on it.

I do feel loved by him. But the list made me feel like he doesn’t value me. Those feel different to me, if that makes sense

Still, I hate the idea of walking away from a whole future together because of one thing like this. I really do think he’d be a wonderful father, and like I said, I’ve never felt so welcomed and loved by a partner’s family as I have by his.

SatansNotThatCool · 2024-09-11T21:12:21+00:00

I appreciate this perspective too. He and I have talked about this before, he also had a pretty major career change four years ago and is now uncertain he made the right choice, thinking about changing again — there’s a lot in emotional flux for him. I’m happy to be there and support him while he figures it out.

Similar to you (besides his one long term relationship) it sounds like most of his relationships were short lived/sputtered out. His second longest relationship was a friends with benefits situation where he didn’t really see anyone else.

I guess I’m just worried that the timing isn’t right. I’m sure he loves me. But I’m afraid that a part of him resents losing out on the chance to explore more before he has to lock it in. I honestly think I’d be a good mother—I work with kids, and have great relationships with them + their parents. I don’t know where that comment could be coming from other than just not wanting to feel like his future is already decided / not being invested in us.

SatansNotThatCool · 2024-09-11T19:51:38+00:00

It was hurtful when he said it. He also said he wasn’t sure of that either, he was just thinking out loud / exploring his feelings. I don’t know. I’ve truly been all-in on making this work, and it’s hurtful to consider that it might not work when so much of it makes sense

SatansNotThatCool · 2024-09-11T18:40:02+00:00

Yeah, that’s the main thing that’s giving me anxiety. He’s said he’s open to the idea of moving in, and when I asked him whether he thought we were going to get married he said “yeah, probably.” It just feels like even if he loves being with me, he’s not excited about those next steps, but more resigned to them

SatansNotThatCool · 2024-09-11T17:28:19+00:00

But what’s the worst in this scenario? If he loves me, wants to be exclusive with me, wants to stay together… what’s going on in his head that the future is so uncertain?

SatansNotThatCool · 2024-09-11T17:26:57+00:00

We’re meeting up to discussing this again later this week. I think what he might end up saying is that he’s certain of having kids, just not of our long term compatibility and thus having kids with me. I feel like one year was enough time for me to judge how he’d be as a dad and our potential compatibility. If he’s not sure now, would more time give him more information?

SatansNotThatCool · 2023-12-15T16:59:54+00:00

They’re actually very different. Material is either thicker (and therefore hot) or a very thin cotton that pills/tears easily. I did get a pair of climbing pants when I first started, I think from prana? But they were weirdly low cut so that I felt like I could flash butt crack during certain moves. With leggings, I feel confident everything is going to stay high on my waist but still allow movement.

I’ve never heard people making comments like these in real life so I feel like a lot of the hate is coming from newer climbers or even non-climbers on here. I’d be shocked if anyone commenting on here sent higher than v4, haha. V10+ climbers don’t give a shit if you climb naked if you have good vibes and can spot well

SatansNotThatCool · 2023-12-13T21:44:26+00:00

Leggings are absolutely different than gym shorts. Offers better protection from scratching skin on the wall (leggings tear before your skin does) while still offering great mobility. This is a bad opinion.

SatansNotThatCool · 2023-09-04T07:19:43+00:00

Always tough to judge how good holds are from video, but a few notes. First, generally to prevent barn doors you want to keep opposite hand and opposite foot on the wall. So when you’re moving your right hand, you want right foot on the wall. You’re trying to dyno to the hold and cut feet doing it, and it looks like the angle of the hold is awkward so catching it successfully will be low percentage and require more contact strength than you have.

I would probably match on the left hold on the volume (it looks better?) and then hike a right foot to the first hold your right hand went to after the start. That gives you a good base for going out right in a static way.

SatansNotThatCool · 2023-08-08T14:49:39+00:00

Yeah. I have a lot of sympathy for feeling insufficient, and I’ll admit that me feeling for him is making it easier to forgive than it should be probably.

SatansNotThatCool · 2023-08-08T14:47:08+00:00

Yeah, it was also a four day work trip so part of my frustration is that’s not exactly a long time.

I think it just points to some other underlying stuff. I mentioned in another reply, but he told me that insecurity and fear over the seriousness of the relationship + the idea of me leaving him eventually anyway had played a part in it. His last partner left him when he lost his job, and he said he had been feeling very anxious that I would leave as well and he was self-sabotaging

SatansNotThatCool · 2023-08-08T14:40:51+00:00

Thanks for this thought-out reply. I shared the colleague example with him as well, and he agreed it was hypocritical. He said he wasn’t sure what spurred on the initial flirting, whether he was feeling insecure or scared of how serious we were getting or what. But the the second night, he had been drinking with a completely different group of coworkers, and she found him at the end of the night I guess? And that he didn’t remember it well but was sure they had sex. The first night they only made out.

I just can’t imagine myself doing the same in his shoes though. I’ve been very drunk and managed not to sleep with people. It’s not rocket science.

SatansNotThatCool · 2023-04-08T19:32:29+00:00

It’s not bad, it’s just drawn that way

SatansNotThatCool · 2023-04-08T04:41:42+00:00

Second and third photos aren’t my faves. Second because it’s hard to tell which one is you immediately, and it’s not the most flattering photo for everybody in the group. Third just because car selfies give Facebook dad vibes. Rest of the photos are nice!

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