Got stood up for a hiking trip so I tried rock climbing at the gym instead

I was supposed to meet a friend at 7am for a trail loop near Boulder but they bailed last night. Ended up going to a climbing gym for the first time and actually sent a 5.9 route after like 45 minutes of flailing. Has anyone else discovered a new hobby just because someone canceled on them?

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dianaanderson11d ago

Saw a climbing documentary last week. Just goes to show, bad plans can lead to good stuff sometimes.

grantw3211d ago

Random luck is still luck. That route was probably safer than it looked anyway.

julia_anderson11d ago

Hold on though. Was the documentary actually about bad planning or just about people taking calculated risks? Because there's a big difference between being unprepared and choosing a hard route that had some flexibility built in. I'm always suspicious of these "failure leads to success" stories when the filmmakers might have left out how much backup gear or prior scouting they did. What exactly made the plan bad in the first place?