Nevada 207

A new city means a new job and an entirely new one. I accepted a position as a route-setter at Red Rock Climbing Center. A job that in recent years I’ve applied to at numerous climbing gyms but have been rejected which is understandable due to my lack of experience in route-setting. I’m excited about the things I will come to learn and the people ill meet through my routes. A job like this is a great way to become closer to the community specifically climbers in Vegas. I’d eventually like to have conversations with folks who have been living in a place like Las Vegas for years and have been climbing in Red Rocks before the huge boom of climbing. It would be interesting to see from the insider’s perspective how a place that’s known to the majority of us as the gambling and party capital of the world is not only that. I grew up with a warped image of Vegas for a bit I would’ve actually believed that no one lives there but people just stay in hotels on the strip to have sex, gamble, drink, and go clubbing. The first few times I visited Vegas I came with family and didn’t leave the 4-mile strip once. I wasn’t even aware of these vast mountain ranges and small suburban communities that were miles from the strip its almost as if it was all hidden from the tourist that goes to Las Vegas to do what is meant to do in Sin City. Years later I came to visit my friend James who bought a house in Summerlin a community in southern Nevada it reminded me so much of where I grew up. It was an odd thing to have an eye-opener that there is so much more to a place than what we have been exposed to. I guess most things come full circle because now i’m back but this time i’m living in Las Vegas out of my Subaru and spend the majority of time in Summerlin due to its close proximity to Red Rock canyon and my job. As with all things so far in my life, this is temporary which makes it slightly easier to tolerate. I know that eventually a new challenge will come or a new place will be discovered.