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||T Rock Climbing Club goes to Barn Bluff Minnesota

By Dan Zweig
ITEF

er Labor Day weekend, the III
Rock climbing Club planning on dr' ing
down to lac ,on Falls in Southern 111ino s,
to rock irnb for the eekend on t‘amon
sandstone clitl‘s. Hor ever, when a tropical
storm arted blor ng through the region,
tornado and tlooding warnings began to
make theweekend look bleak. For th ‘etv
ot‘the club, the group went northwest instead
to Rcd W'ing Minncsota to climb Barn Blufl'.
At‘ter a sevenehonr dr e at‘ter

the group arrived at a

'ing to snatch

Earlv next morning they headed to
to Climb rout iron] 1 to a ‘3. 11d.
ere all a re ,onable hi ing
nce t‘romparking, and nea ~ 100 bolted
hin a t‘ew minnt \
ncet‘rome -hother.Somechmbe - ~
verv experienced,
tr oraiidslmk-le

imbing even a
experienced ~ere1eading,
and c1eani gm (1V :

~ '11]: a group
an ed climbers ba tc np roasting
hot dogs by opm.

The t‘ollor ng day the gronpr t
the wall again by 10 am; however, the Labor
Day crowd showed up that morning and
there it ere hardlv anv open spot-. The group
p ed to get an area it here thev qui

R 10c: and5 11:1. Thd
ent a good amount at me fine tuning their
11s, getting better at 1eadi g
pert‘ecting certain rnov and techn' u

The morning a, a commotion
of more experienced irnber
teaching younger members hon o do certain
moves and routes. The re of the d ~, the
gronpbonncedaronnd to di erentr a
Flaming, David Nido, and Inna LIIL ‘hcva
climbed severa _. 1s,andDanie11e Kreie and
Dan Zweig 1irnbed m nd 5

Most of the cro di,persed after
lunch and the team had the entire area to
thernselve c1irnbing until the sun had
completer et.

era11 evervone agreed that the

ekend n rked out great and that everyone

hit vtoenio rnbing hontadrop of

rain until Mond; morning. It‘the club had

traveled toIa nFalls,thevcert nlvn uld
have been drenched the entire \

man

c rnbing s

able to climb ne ontes in a

p ace, and developed their , s on more
dithcnlt and complicated climbs. Thi entire
weekend ould never have been po ib1e
without OCL to make sure the grou u re
in the right place at the right time, and SAP
which gotthern towhere they“ regoin and

kept them we11t‘ed.
The Rock climbing chib ,
rk ot‘pntting on a trip to Devi
, . tober and hopefully
a trip to Red River Gorge Kentnc
ecnred from cAF.
They want more trips 1oca11v, to

~emester and

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