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One for the girls... 22-Mar-2004 At 5:25:28 PM Spanky

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I don't find it a problem myself. My biggest competitor is me and so I don't really focus on the boys club around me.

When I first started climbing I was single and indeed had NO problem with the abundance of all those finely polished, muscly specimens in the gym with no shirts on.... :-) Did I care if I was or am bumbly? No way. I can see my improvement session to session and I am completely happy with that. If I were trying to compete with someone else I would be ending up injured quick as a flash. Injury would be my only reason for dropping out.

While I guess there are a lot more males than females visible in the climbing gyms, a lot of the top climbers in the world are female so I don't really confine the climbing arena to what I see in the gym.