GRUMPY BEARS AND BEESTINGS HIGH MO- TIVATION IN THE TIME OF CLIMATE CHANGE
For most of my life the seasons of the year were very predictable. April showers brought May flowers, the end of ice climbing and start of rock climbing, not pilgrims in boats. (I never understood nursery rhymes) Spring meant moderate temperatures and low humidity great, for hiking and climbing, and it lasted until July.
The past four or five years that age-old pattern has changed. Now by second week of May it is hot, too hot for crimp fests and steep approaches. The growing cycle of plants and bugs has also been effected. The heavy snows and then early high temperatures are nothing compared to what our summers’ unpredictability, weather wise, have become. This year July was perfect for climbing as opposed to hot and humid. The dog days of August (?) never happened, until now in September. There were a few hot days but it was a summer with almost no temperatures of 87 degrees or more, beach days here on the East Coast.
This map of Richter Park and the Shut Up and Climb boulder, (Last months blog photo) go together. Please stay off the Golf Course. The boulder faces the course, and balls that are well played often land on the hillside bellow the rock.
