Boats Wall
Kids and Climbing: A Step Up In Life (Great Outdoors)**Natural Born Climbers**
Kids are natural climbers. Even before they can walk, they haul themselves up
on crib rails, coffee tables and bureaus. Once mobile, as parents may recall,
a child can be entertained for hours with a flight of stairs, a low-hanging
branch, kitchen cabinet, or, pile of rocks. In the old days, rock climbing was
the bastion of hardscrabble daredevils who used pitons, ropes and force of
will to scale forbidding cliffs. But climbing has changed–or rather grown-up.
In the 1990s, in order to train, it became increasingly common for climbers to
build private indoor walls, utilizing