Done. Good luck with your project, and please post the results (and your thoughts) as a follow-up on this thread.

I miss college.

Done.

I teach climbing as part of my job description (beats working for a living!:) ). My students' first trip outdoors inevitably produces lots of "eyeballs out on stalks", along with vastly improved skills, both belaying and climbing, even though they're already pretty good.

There's no question in my mind that climbing indoors promotes lackadaisical approaches to safety. People "trained" there don't know what they don't know. With any luck at all, they'll figure out very rapidly that the outdoors is way, way different, and they'll live long enough to reap the benefits (cactus, poison ivy and all).

Long ago, I started cautioning my students after that first outdoor trip that they now knew enough to really hurt themselves. Or, better, to go hire a really good guide and learn much more than I had time or opportunity to teach them.

You can climb at gyms? Wouldn't that remove everything fun about climbing such as the warm sun on your back and the cool rocks under your fingers. Overhearing the 130 pound kid tell his 250 pound friend "if you fall I'll try and catch you" from the kids that somehow found their way back to where you're climbing and decided they could free solo. Jonesing to climb so bad you swear the clouds hanging over head won't rain on you and finding out just as you starting gearing up you were wrong.

I think I got a 100%