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Upcoming Dates for the Front Range Adaptive Climbing Club
Whether you're a seasoned climber or total beginner, this is a great opportunity to get some vertical exercise. The Club meets twice a month at alternating locations. Registration is $10 and includes entrance fee and gear rentals.
April 14: Boulder Rock Club April 16: Earth Treks April 25: Rock'n and Jam'n May 12: Boulder Rock Club May 21: Earth Treks
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SCS Youth Paraclimbing Competition
The Boulder Rock Club will host a SCS Youth Climbing Competition on Saturday, April 12 from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be a paraclimbing competition during the second wave that is open to adaptive youth climbers of all skill levels!
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International Climbers' Festival
The 2014 International Climbers' Festival in Lander, WY is offering a special buy-one-get-one deal on tickets for Paradox Ambassadors and adaptive climbers attending the festival! Register here and type in "paradox" in the coupon code box when you check out.
Paradox Sports will host an adaptive climbing clinic on Saturday, July 12 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Wild Iris climbing area.
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Paradox Sports: Common Camaraderie
"On November 6, 2004, Lieutenant DJ Skelton suffered an injury that would later earn him the title: "the Army's most seriously wounded soldier to return to combat command"-which he did in 2011 to fight with his troops as Captain.
"My left arm was destroyed, but my hand was intact. I have no bone between my hand and elbow. My stomach and chest were split open where shrapnel and AK-47 rounds had shredded. My right leg had a fist-sized hole through the lower portion. All the bone was missing from my foot to my knee," Skelton reported in a 2011 interview with ABC News."
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On the Ascent
"Looking for inspiration for your spring adventures? You could do worse than come hang out with the Front Range Adaptive Climbing Club. "Adaptive" is the preferred term for what used to be called "handicapped" or "disabled." It applies to people who are missing part of what a human body normally rolls off mother nature's factory floor with-like a box of LEGOs missing a piece.
On a recent weeknight at Earth Treks in Golden, Maureen Beck, 27, is alone on a wall, about 15 feet above the ground, without a rope. Her left arm is truncated; it tapers and ends about four inches below her elbow. She was born that way. She has, in fact, adapted." Read More >
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