More than a dirtbag

One of Rockman's pet peeves about the spot of climbing is: Dirtbag climbers. The sport of climbing is in its infancy. The sport tends to be dominated both indoors and out by twenty-somethings. Twenty-somethings, who normally in college, tend to be a little cash strapped. They tend to want deals on everything, memberships, gear, camping, pizza, access and any number of other things. As someone who is trying to advance the sport and the business of climbing, this bugs me to no end. That is not the topic of this post.

In late fall a friend of Rockmans had her home was broken into. A couple meth-heads broke in looking for drugs, money or other valuables. There is no doubt that having your home broken into is not cool. One of the things these two yahoos took was her digital slr camera. As a semi-avid climber and photographer super uncool. This is only part of this posts topic.

Flash forward to a couple of day ago at Adrock. She arrived in town and stopped into the gym. She was going to meet one of her climbing buddies from Yahooville.  When her climbing buddy came in she was brandishing a Christmas present.  The long and short of it is that a bunch of Yahoos from Yahooville got to talking about how uncool the situation and they started taking donations to replace her camera.  When the present was opened it actually brought tears to Rockman's eyes.  For all of the pooh-poohing I have done over the years about dirtbag climbers this was really cool. It made my Christmas, it turns out climbers have the ability to think about other people.  Their is hope for the sport of climbing.

Merry Christmas

Rockman

P.S. I gave them both day-passes