![]() That's a big question, because the dynamics of climbing everyone loves and hates it, because it scares them but it also thrills them. It wasn't a very selective group of people or kids. Private school kids, because they were the only ones, of course, who could afford to go out for five days in school. SE: The kids were seventh grade to 10th grade, as I remember. ![]() They had an outdoor program and it was my motivation of looking at climbing in magazines –I was a surfer before, and grew up in San Diego– and just seeing climbing pictures motivated me to then go and figure it out and then thus finding a college that taught it basically.ĭA: And did the kids that you brought, did they fall in love with Joshua Tree as well? Or was that a sort of one or two kids that were like, "Yes, I really enjoyed this." SE: Who got me into climbing? It was Prescott College. I was climbing mostly in Arizona (Granite Mountain, Oak Creek Canyon (Sedona), Cochise Stronghold, Mt Lemmon).ĭA: So who got you into–? Was there someone specifically that–? So I did climbing there for four years, going to school there. Prescott, Arizona, and that's where I got introduced to rock climbing. SE: Climbing elsewhere I went to Prescott College, which was in Arizona. That's the very first time I went to Joshua Tree.ĭA: And was Joshua Tree –because you had experience prior to it, because you were doing climbing elsewhere? So I had skills as a climber, but we were setting up top ropes for the kids to have a day of climbing there. SE: Generally, if my memory serves me well, it was in 1982, and that was not necessarily for climbing at that time, but going with a program I worked in the outdoor education field, and I worked for Boojum Institute, and we would take kids for five days, school kids, for this outdoor experience.Īnd we were in Indian Cove, more specifically, and hiked over to Hidden Valley, but one of those days during the activities was a day of rock climbing for the kids. ![]() Thank you, Sandy, for participating in this study.ĭA: When did you first visit Joshua Tree? I'm David Asplund and I'm here with Sandy Esque on the 18th of February, 2020, and this is a short interview about Sandy's climbing experience at Joshua Tree. ![]()
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