Outdoor climbing makes you nostalgic for the climbing gym—but in a good way.
Outdoor climbing is a whole different beast. Every step has countless natural holds, each choice affecting your technique—arm reach, strength, knee position—all like solving a puzzle. Sometimes it feels like navigating life at 23, not knowing if the next hold is solid. If you don’t trust it, you get locked, muscles screaming, fear and effort cranking every fiber. The rock feels nothing like gym holds—sometimes silky, sometimes jagged, often sun-baked with a desert-like warmth. As our guide Yan joked, once you’ve climbed outside, the gym feels… small. Still, when newbies get stuck on bare walls, I do miss those cozy gym holds 😢
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