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Wasps and climbing
May. 8th, 2007 11:58 pmNo, they're not directly related, except that both were part of my life today.
This morning, I take my pants down from the closet, go to slide my right leg in, feel a stinging sensation, pull it out, and there's a wasp on the right side of my knee. I fling it away, and go ouchies. After poking around where it stung me, I start to put my pants on again, and get stung again (second wasp? or my fling threw the first one back into my pants? I don't know), this time on the left side of my knee. Pull leg back out. Turn pants leg inside out, remove & crush to death wasp. Try a venom-extractor on the stings -- not sure how it worked. But, nothing too bad as far as a reaction, so either mild venom, I don't react much, or the venom extractor (from gabriel_le's camping med kit) helped. It did look like it had extracted some from the 2nd bite, but nothing visible from the first.
Then after work and after a yummy dinner at my parents I headed out climbing. I've not been climbing locally in a few weeks -- being sick and travel. (Though, I did climb in Illinois a couple weeks ago.) I did get out last Thursday to boulder, but had injured my left ring finger doing so -- not sure how I hurt it, but I suddenly found gripping things with my left hand hurt, and my fingers released. Experimentation after I was done found it was just the one finger. It was still a bit weak and tender today, but I wanted to climb, and tried to be careful to not stress it too much -- which sometimes meant using holds a little different from how I might normally do so.
I did climb pretty well -- I did one 5.10b, though not clean. I'd tried it before, but hadn't been able to do one particular move, this time I think I did every move -- I just did a bit of falling before doing some of them, and a bit of hang-dogging between tries at various points. I also climbed a couple of unrated climbs, one of which I feel was 5.9+ and the other probably about 5.10a without too much difficulty other than the finishing move on the 5.10a (which involved a really tricky hand-foot match).
My right shoe is getting torn up at the toe, I must get out to MEC this weekend and get some more gear -- I'll buy me new shoes, and work will buy me a bunch more climbing gear as a 15-year thank-you present.
This morning, I take my pants down from the closet, go to slide my right leg in, feel a stinging sensation, pull it out, and there's a wasp on the right side of my knee. I fling it away, and go ouchies. After poking around where it stung me, I start to put my pants on again, and get stung again (second wasp? or my fling threw the first one back into my pants? I don't know), this time on the left side of my knee. Pull leg back out. Turn pants leg inside out, remove & crush to death wasp. Try a venom-extractor on the stings -- not sure how it worked. But, nothing too bad as far as a reaction, so either mild venom, I don't react much, or the venom extractor (from gabriel_le's camping med kit) helped. It did look like it had extracted some from the 2nd bite, but nothing visible from the first.
Then after work and after a yummy dinner at my parents I headed out climbing. I've not been climbing locally in a few weeks -- being sick and travel. (Though, I did climb in Illinois a couple weeks ago.) I did get out last Thursday to boulder, but had injured my left ring finger doing so -- not sure how I hurt it, but I suddenly found gripping things with my left hand hurt, and my fingers released. Experimentation after I was done found it was just the one finger. It was still a bit weak and tender today, but I wanted to climb, and tried to be careful to not stress it too much -- which sometimes meant using holds a little different from how I might normally do so.
I did climb pretty well -- I did one 5.10b, though not clean. I'd tried it before, but hadn't been able to do one particular move, this time I think I did every move -- I just did a bit of falling before doing some of them, and a bit of hang-dogging between tries at various points. I also climbed a couple of unrated climbs, one of which I feel was 5.9+ and the other probably about 5.10a without too much difficulty other than the finishing move on the 5.10a (which involved a really tricky hand-foot match).
My right shoe is getting torn up at the toe, I must get out to MEC this weekend and get some more gear -- I'll buy me new shoes, and work will buy me a bunch more climbing gear as a 15-year thank-you present.
