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Posted by Alicia on February 5, 2007 at 7:21:12 pm EST

I’ve often wondered how other people deal with this issue. If you are a parent and a climber/mountaineer, what risks are you willing to take and which ones are you unwilling to take in climbing, since your child would be affected by any accident to you?

One extreme would be never climbing (at least as long as you have a minor) and the other extreme would be not changing how or when you climb at all. However, I suspect most people fall somewhere in that huge middle range.

So, when/if you had/have kids, did you make up climbing rules with your spouse/partner? Did your spouse/partner (if they climb) continue to do so? Would you climb with your spouse/partner? Would you climb only up to a certain level? No leading? Or did you forget making up rules and decide you’d just do it as long as you felt comfortable?

I’m not looking for any right or wrong answers, but am just curious about how other people have handled the issue of being a climber and a responsible parent.

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• Re: Climbing as a Parent - FMD 09:59:21 04/19/2007
• Re: Climbing as a Parent - S. cerevisiae 20:37:01 03/24/2007
• Re: Climbing as a Parent - adam g 10:00:00 02/12/2007
  • Re: Climbing as a Parent - SteveTheFolkie 10:57:46 02/12/2007
• Re: Climbing as a Parent - Bill S 20:42:14 02/05/2007

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