This week, my school took students from grade four to eight to different places for a type of field trip. All of the activities were related to fitness like skiing and rock climbing. The different options were skiing & snowboarding, Skyzone (trampoline park), rock climbing, and snow tubing. This week was our second winter elective of this year since we already had one a month before. A few friends and I decided to go rock climbing this time so I will be writing my opinion on the trip and overall experience.
We didn’t have to wake up early for the trip compared to anyone going skiing or snowboarding since they had to wake up and get to school a few hours earlier than normal time. I arrived at school at the normal time and everyone going to the rock climbing place met in one classroom. We all got onto the bus and the ride was short being around 15 minutes. When we arrived we had to wait quite a while before we actually did anything. The facility gave everyone a special pair of shoes that were tighter than your average shoes. Everyone was also given a harness and was taught how to safely repel downwards after climbing to the desired height of the climber. There wasn’t much to talk about besides that there were two walls that had timers to time how fast you could climb, but every other wall was just a normal rock climbing wall with different pieces to grab and use.
After around half an hour, we were given the option of using the other side of the facility to climb without the use of a harness. Along with a few friends, I also went to “boulder” which is what the type of climbing was called. It wasn’t that much different from the climbing with a harness except that the walls were angled more towards the climber making it harder to use your legs to climb.
After around two hours of climbing everyone had lunch and sat around until it was time to leave. Overall, I had a good time rock climbing and would say that it’s definitely not the worst or the best activity that I’ve tried before. The only things that I didn’t quite enjoy was the time that we sat around not doing anything and the sore forearm muscles around the wrist area.