Ask a rock climber

[CapnAwesome]

I've never been camping so I don't know the first thing. How do you handle the food situation? I'm assuming not all camps have a place where you can go and buy meals. Do you have to drive out of the camp site every day to get food? Or do you just live on canned food, granola bars, etc for a while?

You've never been camping?? Wow. That is so strange to me. I mean I grew up camping for sometimes the entire summer. So with food normally you just bring in as many supplies as you can from town at a time. I mean normally you want to go back to town at least once a week anyway to get on the internet or take a shower or whatever people want to do. I mean I'm in town right now redecorating the RV and playing on Atheist forums, then I'll be back in the park for a bit and back out or whatever. Rarely do I eat canned food. I mean most climbers are health conscious and have good diets, probably far better then your average American. It's very common to make group dinners with other climbers. Also Americans refrigerate food that people in other countries don't, for example eggs.

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Aside from pull-ups, what do you do to keep your hand/arm strength during the off-season?

I don't really have an off season. I mean I work in the fall and then I just work and don't really do shit. Normally it's good though, there are such things as micro injuries that need to heal. Last year in the winter though I lived in Seattle and trained in a climbing gym, I also do some cross training in martial arts, try to do some sit ups from time to time but I'd say that 90% of the exercise I get is from rock climbing. You'd think I'd be some pull up machine too, but not really. I don't really like doing them.